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The Senate Spokesperson, Dr. Ajibola Basiru, insisted on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 that there was no law on grazing routes in any part of Nigeria. Rather, the Senator, who holds a doctoral degree in property law, said the law on grazing reserves, recognised as a State law in the 1999 Constitution, actually criminalised open grazing.
The Osun Central Senatorial District Senator gave the clarification in a statement personally signed by him in Abuja on Wednesday evening, titled, “No Law of Grazing Routes in Nigeria: Either North or South.”
He maintained that modern animal husbandry practices remained the panacea to herders/farmers clashes in Nigeria.
Basiru said the provisions in the said state laws which are applicable to some states in northern Nigeria, specifically made it an offence for anybody to roam about with cattle, outside of the grazing reserves.
The statement read in part, “The Grazing Reserves Laws in some states created from the former Northern Region of Nigeria are deemed to be state laws by Section 318 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
“They have been adopted from the Grazing Reserve Law of Northern Region of Nigeria (NN Law of 1965) including CAP 3 Laws of Kwara State, CAP 56 Laws of Bauchi State and CAP 55 Laws of Kastina State.
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