House of Assembly, saying the Bill is in their favour.
The said
Bill, recently compelled the state branch of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders
Association of Nigeria to embarked on a peaceful demonstration, if well
studied, Yero insisted, accords the herders more prominence in the state.
“I have read
the Bill sent to the Assembly by Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku over and over
again and I can authoritatively say that, this entire Bill is in favour of the
grazers,” he stated.
Yero, a
Fulani, speaking to journalists in Jalingo, the state capital, yesterday,
pleaded with his kinsmen to embrace the Bill, saying if it scales through, the
Bill would end skirmishes between herders and farmers in the state and that
herders would carry out their grazing activities peacefully.
Throwing his
weight behind the Bill, Yero said: “If anyone wants to trample on my human
fundamental rights, I won’t allow that, but in this case, it is not so.“Some
sections of the Bill provides for Special Marshal responsible for guarding and
securing the livestock.
“With this,
it is a final full stop to thieves, who come to do away with our cattle. It
also talks about ensuring proper vaccination for the livestock, which is a huge
plus for the grazers, because this will keep the animals strong and healthier.
“I have read
this Bill and I say it again, it is to the favour of the grazers and even the
Fulani youths too when they recruited the Special Marshalls, because they know
all the footpaths of the cattle.”
The
governor, he stressed, was only trying to make the state a peaceful and
habitable place for all Tarabans, adding: “I can assure you that from what I
read in this Bill, I did not see any place where he told anyone to stop rearing
cattle or reduce the number of cattle to a particular figure.”
Yero noted
that the Bill would unite farmers and herders in the state and urged the
Assembly to initiate a law that would control the influx of people into the
state, who disguise to give the Fulani in Taraba a bad name and later leave
them with trouble.
He called on
herders to avoid being used as tools to thwart the peace in the state, noting:
“I saw in the submission (Bill) clearly that movement with livestock will be on
permit, and there is nothing bad about that, as it will rather guarantee the
owners of these livestock their safety.”
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