Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai yesterday berated 17 governors of states in the south over their decision to enact Anti-Open Grazing Law in their domains.
The Kaduna governor said the law is “not implementable”.
He accused them of “politicising” the herders/farmers crisis, which led the states to decide on making law.
The governors have met three times this year under the banner of Southern Governors Forum at Asaba, Lagos and last week in Enugu.
They resolved to legalise the ban on open grazing and they gave themselves a September deadline.
El-Rufai, speaking at the All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat on the herders/farmers crisis said it is not a matter of populist legislation or saying tomorrow this or that. It is not a solution.
He said “What is unhelpful is the politicizing of the situation and pass legislation that you know that you cannot implement.”
“The Northern States Governors Forum has already taken a position that open grazing is not a sustainable way of livestock production. And we must move towards ranching.
“But moving towards ranching cannot be done overnight. We have to plan, we have to have resources and we have to implement it,” El-Rufai added.
