The police on
Thursday arraigned a 30-year-old herdsman, Abubakar Usman, at a Chief
Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti state, for grazing on a
cassava
farmland.
Prosecutor Sgt.
Bankole Olasunkanmi told the court that the accused and others at large,
committed the offence sometimes in December at Iyemero farm settlement camp in
Ikole-Ekiti.
Olasunkanmi said
that the accused unlawfully permit his cattle to graze on the 70 hectares
cassava farmland property of Bunmi Akingba, valued at N25,000,000 (N25m).
He said the offence
contravened SECTION 2 (i) and punishable under Section 7 of Prohibition of
Cattle and other Ruminants Grazing, Ekiti State Law 2016.
The prosecutor also
said that the accused and others at large had in their possession offensive
weapons contrary to Section 4(1) of the Prohibition of Cattle and other
Ruminants Grazing of Ekiti and Punishable under Section 11 of Ekiti State
Kidnap and Terrorism (Prohibition) Law 2015.
The policeman told
the court that he had forwarded the case file to the office of the Director of
Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice.
No plea was taken as
Chief Magistrate Idowu Ayenimo remanded the herdsman in prison pending the
outcome from DPP office. He adjourned the case till March 3rd.
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