Governor Akeredolu Kicks Against Buhari’s Move For Open Grazing

• Governor Akeredolu has kicked against President Buhari’s move for open grazing.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has kicked against the practice of open grazing as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Governor Akeredolu made this known while addressing the audience at a June 12 Memorial Lecture in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

The governor, who doubted the workability of the system used in the First Republic, insisted that things had changed.

Governor Akeredolu further stressed that cattle grazing routes do not reflect the demands of 21st-century development in cities and states.

He said, “Where we are now, the Dome, something was here before, so now are we going to bring it back and reinstate what was here before?

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“Or where the Deji of Akure’s Palace is now, you say that it is a grazing route and we have to remove the palace for grazing route? We can’t do that now.

“Things are changing and there has to be a paradigm shift.

“Ethiopia has about 200 million cattle and you won’t see them on the streets. They are located in the hinterlands designated for grazing,” Governor Akeredolu stated.

It would be recalled that President Buhari in an interview on Arise TV on Thursday, said he had directed the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to begin the process of recovering land from persons who had converted cattle grazing routes for their personal use.

Buhari also claimed that the AK-47 bearing killers herdsmen are not Nigerians, saying Nigerian herders do not bear guns but sticks or machetes.

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