lastest on FULANI HERDSMEN

 As another victim last week's deadly unslaught of FULANI HERDSMEN in Enugu State, South-East Nigeria, dies in hospital yesterday, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, from the Western part, has sworn into action by breaking the records.

  Fayose  today BECAME THE FIRST GOVERNOR IN NIGERIA TO SIGN A LAW PROHIBITING OPEN GRAZING OF CATTLE. The bill is titled " Ekiti state Open Grazing Prohibition Bill". Under the law, herdsmen are prohibited from grazing their cattle in areas that are not designated for grazing and forbidden from carrying arms. The law prescribes six months imprisonment without option of fine for any herdsman who violates the grazing prohibition while any herdsman found with arms will be charged with terrorism. 

Reacting to the new development in Ekiti state, Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode wrote, 

"I am proud of Gov. Ayo Fayose and the people of Ekiti state for signing into law legislation which bans grazing rights for the Fulani herdsmen in the state and which prevents them from carrying firearms.

By this bold and courageous act Fayose and the Ekiiti State House of Assembly have saved many lives. Every governor in the south and the Middle Belt should find the courage to emulate them and do the same."

It will be recalled that GOVERNOR FAYOSE, Sometime in May this year, met with local hunters in the Oke-Ako area of the state telling them to be battle ready to confront any Fulani herdsman found grazing cattle anywhere in the state.
The governor addressed the hunters hours after he banned cattle grazing in the state in response to the killing of two people by suspected herdsmen.