By Emmanuel Antswen
All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Benue, Emmanuel Jime said people have been the ones ranched instead of cattle, under Governor Samuel Ortom’s anti-open grazing law.
Jime stated this during a live “True-Talk Benue Gubernatorial Debate 2019” monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi.
He said that the implementation of the anti- open grazing law has been “politicised”.
He regretted that instead of the law guaranteeing the ranching of all livestocks, it had only succeeded in ranching human beings in camps across the state.
“I completely support the anti open grazing law. My only reservations with the law is its implementation. The implementation of the law has been politicised.
“There is no need to argue: at the moment it us human beings that have been ranched while cattle are all over the places.”
He…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
