Nasarawa governor, Sule faults anti-open grazing policy

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state on Monday faulted the anti-open grazing policy adopted by some state governments.

The governor, who condemned the policy during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, submitted that the programme is not working.

“We don’t like the current anti-grazing policy, it is not working.

“We are not just going with the crowd about Anti-Grazing law. If you sign anti-grazing law and it is not working, is it worth it?

“One thing all the northern governors have decided, we said that the current method of open grazing is old-fashioned, outdated, and cannot be sustained”, the governor said.

Inline with the resolution of the Nigerian Southern Governors Forum that member-states should enact the law prohibiting open grazing to align with the uniform template and aspiration of the governors, the Lagos state gaffer, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday (Monday) signed the anti-open grazing bill into law.

Meanwhile, at the meeting held last week Thursday in Enugu, the governors lauded  the rate at which the states in the South were enacting the law, just as they encouraged others to do so expeditiously.