Miyetti Allah Gives Condition To Stop Open Grazing

Miyetti Allah has said that open grazing will continue to prevail in Southern Nigeria until governors in the region provided alternatives to the system as practiced by the herders.

South East Chairman of Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Gidado Siddiki made the affirmation in his response to the call by former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo to the Houses of Assembly in the South East to enact anti-grazing law in their respective states.

While affirming that the group was not opposed to the ban on open grazing, he said that their beef was with the absence of effective alternatives.

“We were not given the chance to go for the Constitution review public hearing, we went there but nobody gave us an audience to talk. We did not submit a petition,” he said.

“Our position is that we are not opposed to the ban on open grazing, but at least we need an alternative.

“You know when somebody is doing business and you stop him from doing that business, he would be given an alternative on what to do.

“When you say that you have banned open grazing, you need to tell us how we should graze our cows because what we know is grazing. If there is an alternative, there is no problem, and that is the only thing we are begging for.”

While calling on governors to involve all stakeholders in the practice of promulgating laws concerning open grazing, he said:

“If open grazing is bringing problems, let us find ways we can coexist.

“If there is provision for ranching, we can do ranching but I do not think there is provision for ranching in states. Even Benue State that banned open grazing, I don’t think there has been any ranching in Benue State in all these years.

“So, I don’t know if there is provision and that is our own problem,” the Miyettl Allah leader said.

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