Following the Southern governors’ resolution to enact a law against open grazing of cattle in September, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, and Enugu state governments have sent the bills to their respective state houses of assembly, while the Osun State House of Assembly on Thursday passed the bill into law.
Three days before the governor’s meeting on July 5 in Lagos, the Ondo State House of Assembly meeting in Lagos, passed into law the anti-open grazing bill, as a move to regulate the activities of herdsmen and the rearing of livestock in the state.
Similarly, Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, had in March signed into law the state’s ‘Livestock Breeding and Marketing Regulation Bill, 2021’, banning open grazing of livestock in the state. The governor assented to the bill shortly after its passage by the 24-member House of Assembly.
The anti-open grazing law was already operational in Ogun, Abia, Oyo, Ekiti, and Ebonyi states before the resolution of the governors.
However , at the time of filing this report, Anambra, Cross River, Imo, Edo, and Lagos states were yet to initiate the bill, 17 days to the September 1 target set by the southern governors.
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