Employ Laws To Cage Killer Herdsmen, Monarchs Advice South-West Govs

• Monarch Suggest Options To Governors To Curb ‘Killer Herdsmen’
• Commissioner clarifies Gov Akeredolu’s Order

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Ondo State Council of Obas has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to caution his aides who comment on the security of the country.

The traditional rulers said this on Thursday while reacting to the comments made by some aides of the President on the order of Akeredolu ejecting the herdsmen from all the forest reserves in the state.

The Monarchs said the move was not to chase out the Fulani in the state but to save it from the activities of the bandits.

This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting of the monarchs in Akure, which was read by a former Chairman of the council and the Olukare of Ikareland, Oba Akadiri Momoh.

The monarchs said, “We are calling on President Buhari to show to the world that he is a father of all irrespective of ethnic affiliation as well as cautioned his aides to exercise restraints on issues that border on insecurity in the country.”

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The obas urged “the governors in the South-West region, the South-West caucus in the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly to use constitutional means to rein the rampaging criminals masquerading as herdsmen across the region.”

The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Charles Titiloye, declared that the state had no plan to send an anti-open grazing bill to the state House of Assembly at the moment.

He said what was on ground in the state currently was the order of the governor to be complied with within seven days.

Titiloye said, “I may not be able to reply whether the state is planning to send the anti-grazing bill or not because the governor has given an order and after the seven days ultimatum and there is no compliance, then we shall know what to do next.”

In his reaction to the claim by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF)  that the herdsmen had freedom of movement, Titiloye explained that the governor’s order had not restrained anybody’s movement, but to flush out criminal elements among herdsmen in the state.