{"id":86625,"date":"2021-10-04T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=86625"},"modified":"2021-10-04T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:05:54","slug":"anti-open-grazing-law-fg-backs-herders-planned-suit-against-south-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/anti-open-grazing-law-fg-backs-herders-planned-suit-against-south-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-open grazing law: FG backs herders\u2019 planned suit against South governors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Federal Government on Sunday threw its weight behind moves by herdsmen to sue southern governors over the anti-open grazing bill they recently signed into law.<\/div>\n
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\nThe Special Assistant (Media) to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Dr Umar Gwandu, who disclosed this in an interview, said Nigerians whose rights had been violated could go to court to seek protection.<\/p>\n

Gwandu stated this as state police commands on Sunday differed on the enforcement of the law.<\/p>\n

While Ebonyi and Osun state police commands told our correspondents that they would enforce the law, a source in the Lagos State Police Command stated that the police would only provide protection to the enforcement team of the state.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nThe Rivers State Police Commissioner, Friday Eboka, on his part said he had not seen a copy of the state anti-open grazing law.<\/p>\n

But a top police officer told one of our correspondents that it would be difficult for state commands to enforce the law without the support of force headquarters.<\/p>\n

Most southern states, including Lagos, Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Abia, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, and just recently, Delta and Ogun states,\u00a0 signed the anti-open grazing bill into law.<\/p>\n

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore group, while reacting to the passage of the law in the southern states, described it as \u2018satanic\u2019 and \u2018politically motivated,\u2019 adding that it would sue the governors over the law.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nThe National Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore group, Selah Alhassan, told Sunday PUNCH, threatened that the group would sue the southern governors.<\/p>\n

Gwandu, in an interview with one of our correspondents, stated, \u201cThe rights trampled upon are individual rights of Nigerians as constitutionally guaranteed.<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\u201cThe Nigerians whose rights are violated reserve the right to approach the court for the protection of such rights within the context of freedom of movement among others. It will be viewed with that consideration in mind.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Anti-open grazing: We\u2019ll arrest, prosecute offenders \u2013 Ebonyi police<\/p>\n

In Ebonyi State, the state Police Command says it will arrest and prosecute violators of the anti-open grazing law in the state.<\/p>\n

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Aliyu Garba, stated this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abakaliki, on Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nWhen asked if the police would enforce the law,\u00a0 Garba asked, \u201cWhy not? We will arrest and prosecute offenders. Come with a complaint and see whether it is not going to be attended to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, the Ogun State Police Command said that it was ready to implement the anti-open grazing law in the state as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this in a chat with one of our correspondents in Abeokuta.<\/p>\n

When asked when the police would begin the implementation, Oyeyemi said,\u00a0 \u201cWe will begin as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nWe\u2019ll enforce open-grazing prohibition law better than police \u2013 Rivers vigilante<\/p>\n

A popular vigilante group in Rivers State, Diobu Security Service,\u00a0 also said it would enforce the law.<\/p>\n

The Chairman of the Diobu vigilante, Prince Amatari who said during an interview with one of our correspondents said the group would enforce the law better than the police because of its presence in the rural areas.<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\u201cWe have said that the security architecture should be decentralised because the responsibility of the police is much.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the police have not been able to effectively carry out their duties because the entire nation relies on them. If\u00a0 arrests are made by other security agencies, including the Army, they take such persons to the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t seen the law \u2013 Rivers CP<\/p>\n

When contacted, the state Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka said, \u201cThey (the state government) have not passed the law to us. I have not seen it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if the command was ready to enforce anti-open grazing law in the state, Osun Police Command said as law enforcers, it was duty bound to enforce any law made by the government.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson for the command, Yemisi Opalola, said police in the state would enforce any law made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She said, \u201cWe are law enforcers. Our duty is to enforce the law made by the government. We will enforce any law made by government in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lagos police will only provide security for enforcement team \u2013 Source<\/p>\n

Reacting to the readiness of the police command in enforcing the anti-open grazing law in Lagos State, a police source said the responsibility of the police was to provide security for the enforcement team established by the state government to enforce the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an enforcement team to be established by the state government to enforce the law and when the enforcement team is established, the police will provide security during enforcement.”<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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