Akeredolu to el-Rufai: Anti-open grazing law has come to stay

Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu said on Wednesday that the anti-open grazing law had come to stay.

Akeredolu spoke in riposte to the comment by Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna that the law was not implementable.

In a statement issued on his behalf by his state commissioner for Information and orientation, Donald Ojogo, Akeredolu said el-Rufai was probably quoted out of context.

Read him: “There is no wisdom in condemning/banning open grazing, prohibiting inter border movement of cattle in the North, including Kaduna, with an accompanying disapproval of a law that gives bite to the same, in another part of the country.

“For emphasis, any such comment like that of the Kaduna Governor, if indeed he made that statement, merely seeks to encourage anarchy under the guise ‘of resentment of a Law by affected stakeholders.’

“It’s a ploy beyond the ordinary. It must, however, be noted that the Anti-Grazing Law, especially in Ondo State, has come to stay. It shall be zealously guarded and conscionably deployed to protect all residents of Ondo State, notwithstanding their ethnic and religious biases. Those who have nothing evil to perpetrate have nothing to fear as regards the Law.”