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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ondo Government has said it would henceforth auction any cow seized for destroying farms in any parts of the state.
It said it would no longer give room for negotiation with farmers for compensation when herders destroy their crops through illegal grazing.
Ondo State Commander of the State Security Network known as the Amotekun Corps, Chief Adetunji Adeyeye, stated these while signing agreement for release of 250 cows.
He said owners of seized cows would be prosecuted and the cows sold off.
Chief Adeyeye said the 250 cows were seized after farmers at Ipogun, Ilara, Owena Dam axis in Ifedore Local Government cried about their destroyed crops.
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Ondo Govt rejects total NCDC COVID- 19 figure for state
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The Ondo Government on Tuesday faulted the figure for the COVID-19 situation in the state released by the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC).
The rejection is contained in a statement issued by the Acting Commissioner for Health, Dr Jibayo Adeyeye in Akure.
“The NCDC report created an impression that the state was now the most severely affected state in the country. This is far from the truth.
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“The true picture is that the figure recently declared for the state is cumulative of arrears for several days due to delay in getting results from the testing laboratories,
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Mea culpa (2)
By Patrick Dele Cole
This first part of this piece which was first published last week Tuesday focused on governors who conflated criticisms for abuse or opposition
IN the state – if you worked for the previous governor you were gone. If that governor rented your house, you were not paid by the new governor; if you had a contract with the previous government forget it. When a governor does not realise that what he is pursuing is not a personal vendetta but what is good for the people, we have the beginning of despotism. The governor does not suffer on account of this but the people. If the mentality of a governor aligns with what I have described, then what follows is even par.