OLEH—PRESIDENT of God’s Fountain of Life Bible Mission, International Incorporated, Bishop Sam Oyede, has said that the Grazing Reserves Bill presently before the National Assembly, was dead on arrival.
He said that the nature of the bill and the controversy trailing it would make it difficult for it to sail through in the two chambers of the National Assembly.
Fielding questions from newsmen at Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Oyede, argued that if the Federal Government considers it necessary to provide land for Fulani herdsmen to graze their cattle in any part of the country, it should also think of providing land for crop farmers in the South-South, South-West and South-East geo-political zones to make up for the land they would have lost to the herdsmen through the Grazing Reserves. The cleric called for the building of ranches by livestock farmers and dealers in the country as the panacea to the problem of Fulani herdsmen menace in some parts of the country.
He pointed out that in countries such as Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Argentina, Indonesia, Thailand, Holland, Denmark, Britain and the United States of America, ranches were built where cattle are healthily bred.
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