The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has
urged the National Assembly to stop the enactment of the open-grazing laws by
the Southern governors.
Saleh Alhassan, the National
Secretary of the Fulani socio-cultural organisation, said the National Assembly
should stop the governors from enacting the law because it targets Fulani
pastoralists.
Alhassan made the call at a
National Peace Summit and Investiture of Queen Mother Amina Temitope Ajayi as
the Miyetti Allah Brand Ambassador, in Nasarawa State.
He said the law would undermine
the relative peace and stability currently enjoyed in the local communities,
threaten the social order and exacerbated cattle rustling.
Alhassan noted that the anti-open
grazing laws would destroy livestock production and send millions of people who
depend on the livestock value chain into poverty.
He appealed to the national
assembly to rescue the pastoralists by resuscitating and passing the Grazing
Reserves Commission Bill and other livestock management bills initiated by the
previous assembly.
According to Alhassan: “This is
in line with the recommendation of the Inter-ministerial Committee on Livestock
Development in Nigeria 2015, the Report of the President Committee on
Pastoralists and Insecurity 2014 and National Livestock Transformation
Programme.
”He said that the review of the
Land Use Act was long overdue to accommodate the interest of all land resources
users, including pastoralists. He said that ranching as envisaged by many
required capital investment and was difficult to sustain, not economical, and
it is not small livestock holder-centred.”
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