Human rights attorney Maxwell Opara voiced his annoyance and displeasure with the senators who opposed the ban on open grazing in Nigeria during the debate surrounding the anti-open grazing bill. He said he anticipated the previous Gombe State governor, who opposed the bill opposing open grazing, to claim that all of his kids are raising cows in the woods. He said this while pointing out that the children of the senators who opposed the anti-open grazing bill are either obtaining the greatest education possible in the US or the UK.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
(Anti-grazing laws were enacted by several States in Nigeria as a result of the incessant conflicts between farmers and herders over scarce land and water resources.)
Speaking further in an interview with AIT, he stated that before anyone can say students who just graduated should go into the bush and start rearing cattle, that person should also tell Nigerians which bush their children are in rearing cattle.
According to him, “Before you say we should allow open grazing migration, that children should come out of school and go into the bush and rear cows, they (Senators) should tell us where their children are. I expected the former governor of Gombe State, Mohammed Danjuma Goje to say that he has five children, and all of them are in the bush rearing cows.”CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>