Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has reacted to the position of the Federal Government on the recent ban on open grazing by Governors from the Southern States.
Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice in a well publicized interview on Channels Television stated that the Governors of the Southern region had no such constitutional powers.
He added that the decision by the Governors to ban open grazing can be likened to Northern Governors banning the sale of motor spare parts in their region.
In response, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council said it was clear to Nigerians that the killer herdsmen had all along gained their strength from the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government authorities.
Sectarian and Emotional vituperations exposes him as most unfit for the office
Malami mischievously playing role of an agent provocateur, errand boy, spokesperson of Miyetti Allah, their herders
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The Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere blasted the Attorney General of the Federal Government,
Its Secretary-General, Chief Sola Ebiseni, in a statement in Akure, Ondo State capital said Malami’s “sectarian and emotional vituperations pitiably exposed him as being most unfit for the office of an Attorney General having always allowed his sectarian disposition becloud his eminent qualifications.
The group’s statement was entitled “Malami; Attorney General and Agent Provocateur.
The Southern Governors at a meeting last week in Asaba, Delta State, announced the prohibition.
Reacting, Malami, a SAN, opposed the ban and likened the decision to Northern Governors placing an embargo on spare parts business.
Adegboruwa, in a statement, said the proponents of open grazing support it with the right to freedom of movement granted under section 41 of the constitution.
He noted that the section cannot be interpreted to violate other constitutional provisions, especially, section 43, which grants one the right to own private or public property.
“You cannot deploy the right to movement of person and cattle to violate the right of another citizen to own property, such as land or farmland or else you become a trespasser.
Ban On Open Grazing: Miyetti Allah patron backs southern governors stand
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By Ibrahim HassanWuyo
The National Patron of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Senator Walid Jibrin has said that a ban on open grazing will help to address the farmers-herders crisis in the country.
He commended the position of Nigerian Governors on the ban on open grazing and called on the various Fulani organizations to unite as one.
Speaking at a press conference in Kaduna on Thursday, Senator Jibrin, the Sarkin Fulani Nasarawa, said; “most importantly the various Fulani associations with membership up to 50 must come together and talk with one voice on this tradition of open grazing and not necessarily allow any group to come out to do it for them”
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