The Bayelsa State Government has ordered the arrest of two herdsmen and their cattle at the Sampou junction along the East-West Road in the Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state.
According to The PUNCH, the order was given by the State Governor, Douye Diri, who stopped his convoy to apprehend the herders for allegedly breaching the state’s anti-open grazing law.
In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary,Daniel Alabrah, Diri directed security agencies to clamp down on violators of the state’s anti-open grazing law.
He voiced his outrage that some people continued to flagrantly violate the state’s ban on open grazing in spite of numerous warnings.
The “Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Regulation Law,” which the governor had signed on March 10, 2021, mandated that moving forward, law enforcement organizations must make sure they follow the legislation strictly.
He instructed, the state’s chief security coordinator, Gen. Eric Angaye (retd), who was also in the convoy, to see to it that the herders who had been apprehended were prosecuted in order to serve as a warning to others.
