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Fulani herdsmen vow to resist Benue Anti-Grazing Bill

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a Fulani socio-cultural association has faulted the recently passed Anti-Open Grazing Law in Benue State, describing it as obnoxious and a recipe for anarchy. The National President of the organisation, Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodejo and the National Secretary Engineer Saleh Alhassan made the declaration on Tuesday in Abuja at a news conference. The state governor, Samuel Ortom had eight days ago assented to the bill prohibiting Open Rearing and Grazing into law. Alhassan who read the position of the herdsmen said the Land Grazing law of 1960 was subsisting and that Governor Samuel Ortom of Benues should learn from a former Governor Jonah jang of Plateau who tried to decimate the Fulanis for eight years but failed. “Cattle rustling and violence against Fulani herders have pervaded most states in Nigeria. We view this as part of an economically based form of criminality and agenda perpetrated by criminal networks that are illegal and informa...