58 cows arrested in two years – Oyo Gov’t

The Oyo Teach Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Pattern, Olasunkanmi Olaleye, has revealed that the reveal authorities has arrested 58 cows within the previous two years as portion of its anti-starting up grazing regulation enforcement efforts.

Olaleye disclosed this all the arrangement through an inter-ministerial press briefing held in Ibadan, the capital of the reveal.
The commissioner added that the reveal has moreover charged and imposed fines on erring herdsmen who possess flouted the regulation.

“Extra than 58 cows possess been arrested within the final two years. We now possess imposed fines on many herdsmen for violating the regulation. We now possess charged some herdsmen to court,” he acknowledged.

Extra talking, the commissioner reiterated that the anti-starting up grazing regulation is soundless being enforced within the reveal.

“The anti-starting up grazing regulation is soundless in force. We now possess constructed a security post at Ijaye Farm Settlement. So, no farmer has left the Ijaye Farm Settlement.

“In dispute to guarantee that food security, we possess moreover talked with some communities to give us their lands they establish no longer seem to be the exhaust of for us to exhaust for agricultural manufacturing,” he added.

Oyo Teach is with out doubt one of many states in Nigeria that has enforced the anti-starting up grazing regulation to curb farmer-herder conflicts.

The Oyo Teach Condominium of Assembly had passed the anti-starting up grazing bill in 2019. The bill modified into as soon as later signed into regulation by the Governor of the reveal, Seyi Makinde.