Ogun state assembly requests immediate implementation of anti-open grazing law

The Ogun State House of Assembly has sought for the immediate implementation of the State Animal Grazing Regulation and Cattle Ranch Establishment Law, 2020, passed by it and assented by the State Governor, Dapo Abiodun barely a month ago to forestall the reoccurrence of attacks on human and farmlands, which often happened in the dry season, especially in the Yewa axis of the State.

Penpushing reports that, Speaker of the Assembly, Rt Hon Olakunle Oluomo made the call while responding to the submission of a member representing Yewa North I State Constituency, Hon. Adegoke Adeyanju.

The lawmaker spoke under Personal Explanation, on the need for government and necessary stakeholders to prepare towards curbing the incessant clashes between herders and farmers that often happened during the dry season.

Penpushing further reports that, to this end, the Speaker has directed the Special Adviser on Security to the State Governor, Assitant Inspector General of Police Olusola Subaru (rtd) and other concerned government officials to immediately set machineries in motion towards liaising with all security formations in the State for the strict compliance with all sections of the Law.

The speaker  noted that as the dry season approached, the incessant clashes between the herders and farmers should be nip in the bud through the immediate implementation of the law to save farmers from losing their farmlands to nomadic pastoralists, who always engaged in illegal open grazing on farmlands in his constituency.

Penpushing also reports that Oluomo in another development commended Governor Dapo Abiodun for ensuring that the failed portions of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway are being rehabilitated through the application of palliatives.

The speaker said that the State Government remained sensitive to the yearnings and aspirations of the people, thus the need to ease the challenges being encountered by motorists plying the axis, noting that the State had at different times requested for the takeover of the road, which was rejected by the Federal Government.

Penpushing reports that, Oluomo further appealed to the State Government to extend its intervention to other parts of the state and environs including Sango-Ijoko-Agbado-Ojodu Abiodun road.

The speaker equally directed the Assembly’s Committee on Works and Infrastructure to liaise with the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure on the need to re-construct the bridge linking Isale Oja Kuto-Isabo/Ijaye in Abeokuta South II State Constituency, which had earlier been assessed for construction work as reported by a member representing Abeokuta South 2, State Constituency,  Hon. Ademuyiwa Adeyemi.

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