Executive Assistant to the Governor on Public Enlightenment, Projects and Policies, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, has charged Local Government Council Chairmen in Delta State on the Anti-Open Grazing Law.
Mr. Ifeajika, who disclosed this on Wednesday, at a one-day Sensitization Assembly on the Anti-Open Grazing Law for the people of Ika Federal Constituency, held at Agbor, Delta State, urged the chairmen to set up task forces as required by the 2021 Delta State Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Regulation Law for its effective implementation.
Ifeajika said the law needed to be implemented, hence the need to enlighten the people on the importance of the law, and stressed the need of Livestock Management Committee of the state and local government task force to synergize in ensuring that violators of the law faced consequences of their actions.
He deplored the incessant clashes between herders and farmers and assured that implementation of the law would stem the disturbing trend.
In a paper presentation, a former lawmaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Anthony Elekeokwuri, said that the gathering was timely and would help to enlighten participants on the importance of the law in breeding and trading of livestock.
In their remarks, the Chairman of Ika North East, Mr Monday Odigwe; Vice Chairman of Ika South, Mrs Glory Onyedagbor, representative of Dein of Agbor, Chief Peter Idion, Dr Martins Orie and others said no offender should be spared in the enforcement of the law following the level of kidnapping, rape, killings and other criminal attitudes associated with heinous activities of arms-bearing herdsmen.
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Meanwhile, the two local government chairmen said that bold steps had been taken to enforce the laws while the Deputy Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr Moses Iduh, said Ika land had suffered untold hardship in the hands of arms-bearing herders and advocated prompt enforcement of the law.
Representative of Miyetti Allah, market women, youth groups and other leaders pledged to work with the local government councils in the implementation of the anti-grazing law.
