SOUTHEAST governors were at the weekend hailed for banning the movement of herders and cattle from one community to the other in their region.
Stakeholders in Ebonyi, Anambra and Abia and Enugu states including the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, threw their weight behind the governors’ decision to restrict the herdsmen and their flocks in the Southeast.
He said: “It is a welcome development. We are not against their movement but there must be rules. Moving from one state to other without regulations is the main cause of the clashes between farmers and herders. “For me, police, army, DSS are overwhelmed and can’t do more than they have done till date. Let us try state police; it will give the state government options of engaging more hands in our rural areas. What the state police will do is to compliment the federal security agencies.
“The anti-open grazing law is a law passed by almost every state in the Southeast, and the law prohibits taking cows around the place and constituting a nuisance. Despite the law, the herdsmen behave as if that law never exists.
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