{"id":82344,"date":"2021-06-17T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=82344"},"modified":"2021-06-17T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:34:03","slug":"no-federal-law-created-grazing-reserves-senate-spokesman-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/no-federal-law-created-grazing-reserves-senate-spokesman-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"No federal law created grazing reserves, Senate spokesman insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senate spokesman, Senator Surajudeen Ajibola Basiru, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately begin a genuine process of resolving the farmers and herders crisis instead of resorting to grazing routes, which, according to him, were never recognised by any federal law.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He declared that as someone, who has sworn to uphold the constitution, the truth remained that \u201cneither in the North nor in the South, is there a law creating grazing routes either as a state law or federal law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is rather unfortunate that our President has been misadvised on this matter,\u201d the lawmaker added. Basiru, who has, on several occasion, criticised the President\u2019s comments on grazing routes, noted: \u201cThe Grazing Reserves Laws in some states created from the former Northern Region of Nigeria are deemed to be state laws by Section 318 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), having been adopted from the Grazing Reserve Law of Northern Region of Nigeria (NN Law of 1965).<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He stated: \u201cCAP 3 Laws of Kwara State, CAP 56 Laws of Bauchi State and CAP 55 Laws of Kastina State. On the case of these laws, it was expressly stated that they are adopted from Northern Nigeria Laws of 1965. There is no provision for grazing routes as it is being claimed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Osun Central representative continued: \u201cThere has never been a federal legislation on grazing reserves and\/or grazing routes in Nigeria and Northern Region Laws are not applicable everywhere in Nigeria. In fact, by the present constitutional provisions, such law cannot be within the competence of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Grazing Reserves Laws are only applicable and enforceable in those states created from the former Northern Region that chose to adopt same as part of their revised laws like Kwara, Bauchi and Katsina states. It appears that Jigawa State omitted the Grazing Reserves Law as part of its law in the more recent compilation of its laws.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that \u201cnone of the extant laws made mention of grazing routes not to talk of making provisions thereof. It was only in Section 37(1)(a) of the law that the law mentioned \u2018trade route\u2019 in criminalising open grazing outside the grazing reserves areas. However, what is \u2018trade route\u2019 was not defined in the law and there is no other reference to the term in the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker advised that \u201crather than making reference to laws that do not exist or not applicable, what is required and should be pursued by our government and my great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the way forward to address the issue of farmers and herdsmen crisis, is to adopt, promote and finance modern animal husbandry by way of ranches and modern grazing reserves.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate spokesman, Senator Surajudeen Ajibola Basiru, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately begin a genuine process of resolving the farmers and herders crisis instead of resorting to grazing routes,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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