Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has again rejected the suggestion that the state create Cattle Colony or Grazing Routes for herdsmen.
He said the suggestions were not acceptable to the Benue people.
Ortom stated this on Thursday in Makurdi in a service to mark the mass burial of the victims of the herdsmen invasion. He had stated this position on Wednesday at a stakeholders meeting attended by the Inspector General of Police. Idris Ibrahim.
On Thursday, he said since the state does not even have adequate land for farmers, it does not have the space to give herdsmen for grazing.
He insisted on ranching, saying “it is the best way to go and it is in conformity with global best practices”.
Ortom said that if the recent killings by herdsmen were meant to intimidate the state government to repeal the law, the herdsmen had failed…
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