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CAN kicks against cattle rearing/ grazing bill in Edo

 

 

By Omoregie Elvis, Benin

 

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged the Edo State

House of Assembly not to pass the bill for a law to establish the Edo

State Control of Nomadic Cattle Rearing/Grazing Agency and for Other

Purposes Connected Therewith.

 

It told the lawmakers to throw out the bill because ‘it is retroactive

and backdated to 2016’.

 

The bill which has scaled through second reading is scheduled for

public hearing Thursday July 6th, 2017.

 

Edo State Chairman of CAN, Bishop Oyonnude Kure, who spoke at a press

briefing Wednesday said Christians across the state would be mobilised

to attend the public hearing.

 

Bishop Kure stated that CAN opposition to the passage of the grazing

bill was because it would confer unfair advantage on a particular

section and ethnic group in Nigeria to the disadvantage of indigenes

of Edo state.

 

Kure said setting up a state agency to cater for a particular section

of the country by depriving indigenous communities of their choice

ancestral homelands and acquiring same for a preferred ethnic group is

contrary to provisions of Section 26 of the Land Use Act.

 

He stated that it was wrong for the state government to give

indigenous ancestral communal homelands to what he termed favoured

section of the country as nomadic cattle rearing was not customary

among Edo people.

 

According to him, “From the provisions of Sections 22 and 23 of this

bill, it is implied that the hard earned monies of the Edo Tax Payers

will be used to fund this agency which is primarily geared to take

care of the interest of cattle herdsmen who are engaged in private

businesses.

 

“Section 14 (1) of this bill states that the Agency shall have power

to operate in the entire state. This makes the Agency too powerful as

it makes Edo State come under the full jurisdiction of the agency.

 

“This is not good to the interest of the state as the agency will have

wide discretion to create grazing reserves throughout the state.”

 

Majority Leader of the Assembly, Barr. Foly Ogedegbe, told newsmen on

Monday that the bill said was to criminalize the nefarious activities

of herdsmen.”

 

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