The Taraba House of Assembly on Tuesday commenced public hearing on the proposed Anti- open Grazing and Ranches Establishment Bill.
The Speaker, Mr Abel Diah, flagged off the hearing in Jalingo, with Dr Mark Useni, Chairman, House Ad-hoc-Committee on Public Hearing on the bill, presiding.
Diah, in a brief speech, asked the stakeholders to freely contribute to the bill to enable the House to arrive at a position that would be in the interest of the people.
Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), NGOs and other groups, who spoke on the bill, said that it would promote peace between herdsmen and farmers.
Mr Isaac Mela, the Permanent Secretary in the agriculture ministry, opined that the bill, when passed and signed into law, would boost both crop and…
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