Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has urged the President Muhammadu Buhari Federal Government to check the menace of Fulani herdsmen in the country, especially in Benue State.
Fayose, in a release issued on Saturday through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media,Mr. Lere Olayinka said “What is going on in Benue State is more like an organised pogrom and those responsible for the killings must be arrested and prosecuted.”
Fayose in the release said the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, should be allowed to function as the president, so as to be able to deploy instruments of Federal Government to tackle the herdsmen menace.
The Ekiti State Governor while lamenting that it appears Prof Osinbajo does not have the full powers of a president, sympathized with the governor Ortom and people of Benue State, stressing that the Federal Government must stop playing the Ostrich to the menace of Fulani herdsmen.
Fayose, supported the new law prohibiting open grazing in Benue State, said “those opposed to the law are only doing so as part of their plot to undermine the land and people of Benue State and they must be made to face the law.”
Fayose in the statement released yesterday said: “Like I have maintained, cattle farming is not different from fish farming, snake farming, poultry farming, snail farming, etc. Therefore, if fish farmers are providing their own ponds and poultry farmers building their own pens, while also buying feed for their animals, there is no reason cattle farmers should not also provide their own ranch and feed their cows without encroaching on other people’s farmlands. How can Nigerians embrace farming when those already in the farms are losing billions of naira worth of crops to destruction by the Fulani Herdsmen and the Federal Government is not doing anything about it?”
