Herdsmen Resolved To Take Legal Action Against Oyo Anti-Open Grazing Bill

Herdsmen in Oyo state have resolved to use legal option to stop the Oyo State Open Rearing and Grazing Regulation Bill 2019.
According to report, this decision was reached after hundreds of herdsmen from various parts of Oyo State on Tuesday assembled on Igangan, an agrarian community in Ibarapa North Local Government area.

Recalls that the bill which has already passed through second reading at the State House of Assembly had two weeks ago, witnessed a public hearing where stakeholders including farmers groups and the Fulani community bared their minds on how to make it workable.

The National Chairman of Gan Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Sale Bayari, in an 18-pages position paper presented at that forum, stated that “It is impossible in our country for any peasant small scale herdsman to go into ranching” and submitted that the bill if passed into law would punish poor herders.

The herdsmen, at the meeting presided over by the Sarkin Fulani of Oyo State, Alhaji Saliu Abduk-Kadir described the Oyo State Anti-Open Grazing Bill as “too harsh” and targeted at crippling herdsmen from practising their age-long cattle rearing activities across the state.

“We will go to court. We will seek legal redress if Oyo State Government insists on imposing this Bill on us,” the Fulani herdsmen unanimously resolved at the end of the meeting which lasted over five hours at the popular Kara Market in Igangan.
To make the Anti-Open grazing bill to be implementable, the herdsmen appealed to Oyo State Government to provide RUGA or grazing reserve for cattle rearers where there would be easy accessibility to water and grazing facilities.

Failure to do this, the herdsmen maintained, “the implementation of the bill as it is will cause commotion.”
“It is simply this issue that threw up IDP Camps in Benue. And we don’t want all this to happen here in Oyo State where we have been living peacefully with our fellow farmers for ages,” the herdsmen submitted.

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