Benue State’s Security Council has announced a 14-day ultimatum to herders violating the state’s anti-open grazing law.
Herders are to stop rearing their animals outside ranches in line with the state’s Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Law (2017).
The council, which noted that the law was still in force, said those violating it would have themselves to blame.
Chief Press Secretary to Benue Governor, Sir Tersoo Kula, said the council also constituted a seven-man committee to ensure the enforcement of the ultimatum given to the violators.
The ultimatum begins on Wednesday, February 21st, 2024.
According to him, herdsmen, who recently flooded the state with their cattle and took to grazing openly, should immediately leave the state and return to wherever they came from.
The Governor earlier this week said detractors had invited herdsmen from Niger Republic to invade the state and cause confusion.
