- In February, the state conducted a two-week registration of farmers and herders, but not all those involved seized the opportunity
The Ekiti State government has given farmers and herders another two-week window to register with the state government or be ready to leave the state.
The two-week grace begins on Sunday, March 22.
The Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Olabode Adetoyi, said in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday that the exercise was expedient to ensure that all farmers and herders could be accounted for.
He added that the registration was also aimed at ensuring peace between the two groups and bringing incessant clashes between them to an end.
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He noted that the exercise was in consonance with the National Livestock Transformation Programme of the Federal Government.
Adetoyi observed that clashes between farmers and herders posed dangers to human and food security, hence the need to take proactive measures to curb the menace.
Special Adviser to Governor Fayemi on security matters and chairman, herders-farmers peace committee, Ebenezer Ogundana, warned in the statement that “whoever failed to register would be treated as a criminal.”
Such persons, he said, would be compelled to leave the state. The nation’s laws allows all citizens to stay in any part of the country although they must adhere to relevant laws.
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