Bayelsa Govt impounds 34 cows for violating anti-grazing law
The Bayelsa State Government had enacted a law in March prohibiting open grazing of livestock in the state.
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The Bayelsa Livestock Management Committee (BSLMC) on Tuesday said it impounded 34 cows in Yenagoa for an alleged violation of the state’s anti-open grazing law.
The Bayelsa State Government had
enacted a law in March prohibiting open grazing of livestock in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the cows were impounded around the Bayelsa Palm Estate in the state capital.
David Alagoa, chairman of BSLMC, told reporters that the herders allegedly chose a convenient time in the night to graze, saying that some of the cattle were spotted grazing in farmlands.
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The immediate past governor of the state, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, was said to have applied for the loan in 2019.
The state government claims the money was distributed to farmers across the state, with each of them collecting N50, 000 for bush clearing. Many farmers in the rural communities of the state denied accessing the loan.
Recently, a loyalist of former governor Dickson and an ex-general manager of Radio Bayelsa, Mr Idumange John, accused the Governor Diri-led administration of diverting the N3 billion agric loan to the pockets of politicians, saying that it’s too early for the administration to “defraud Bayelsans.”