The Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has replied the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami over his recent comments against the resolution of the Southern Governors Forum to ban open grazing in their respective States.
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CARRIER gathered that Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of Southern
Governors’ Forum, spoke in a statement he personally signed on Thursday,
titled, ‘Our decision is irreversible and will be enforced’.
Akeredolu
said, “I have just read the press statement credited to the Attorney
General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Shehu Malami SAN
on the resolution of the Southern Governors Forum to ban open grazing in
their respective States. The AGF is quoted to have said that this
reasoned decision, among others, is akin to banning all spare parts
dealers in the Northern parts of the country and is unconstitutional.
“It
is most unfortunate that the AGF is unable to distill issues as
expected of a Senior Advocate. Nothing can be more disconcerting. This
outburst should, ordinarily, not elicit response from reasonable people
who know the distinction between a legitimate business that is not in
anyway injurious and a certain predilection for anarchy. Clinging to an
anachronistic model of animal husbandry, which is evidently injurious to
harmonious relationship between the herders and the farmers as well as
the local populace, is wicked and arrogant.
“Comparing
this anachronism, which has led to loss of lives, farmlands and
property, and engendered untold hardship on the host communities, with
buying and selling of auto parts is not only strange. It, annoyingly,
betrays a terrible mindset.
“Mr
Malami is advised to approach the court to challenge the legality of
the Laws of the respective States baning open grazing and decision of
the Southern Governor Forum taken in the interest of their people. We
shall be most willing to meet him in Court.
“The decision to ban open grazing stays. It will be enforced with vigour.”
The
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has tackled the Attorney General
of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Shehu Malami, for
faulting the ban placed on open grazing in the Southern part of the
country.
The
Southern Governors had at a meeting in Asaba last week banned open
grazing and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to address the nation over
the increasing rate of insecurity in the country.
However,
Malami who appeared as a guest on Channels Television on Wednesday
faulted the ban, arguing that the governor had no right to do that.
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