Ortom vows to take anti-open grazing law to herdsmen in villages

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Following the influx of herders and cows into the state, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has pledged to personally go to the villages where the herdsmen flooded to arrest breakers of anti-open grazing law.

Speaking at the official launch of Antiretroviral Therapy Surge Response and Undetectable Equals Untransmittable held in government house, Makurdi yesterday, Ortom said that the state had been enjoying relative peace since the enactment of the anti-open grazing law.

According to him, over 400 herdsmen have been charged to court and convicted for floating the anti-open grazing law.

He said: “Over 400 people have been charged to court and convicted, they are not only Fulani herdsmen,…



Source: Nigerian Tribune