As controversy trails the proposed Grazing Reserves Bill of President Muhammadu Buhari led-Federal Government to the National Assembly, a group, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), on Sunday, told President Buhari to go and clear the den of Boko Haram sect, popularly called ‘Sambisa Forest’ for its proposed ‘Grazing Reserve Project,’ for the Fulani herdsmen.
The group, in a statement signed by its executive chairman, Comrade Alimi Adeniyi Sulaiman, argued that the Fulani herdsmen had portended danger to the peaceful co-existence of the country since assumption of office of the president.
Reacting to the controversial proposed bill on the ‘Grazing Reserves,’ CHRSJ expressed fear that the bill would increase avoidable crisis in the land through the violent resistance across the region of the country, saying the Fulani herdsmen had become dangerous species across the states of the federation.
Sulaiman, who doubled as the chairman of the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS), advised President Buhari to drop the idea of forcing the grazing reserves bill on the states, contrary to Section 17,18 and 20 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, in order to save the country from imminent violent problem.
He described the proposed grazing reserves bill idea as ill-conceived, illegal, unconstitutional, self-serving, retrogressive, day-light robbery and time bomb, which was capable of igniting monumental crisis across the length and breadth of the nation, noting that, “it is evil to conceive such an impunity idea which poor farmers across the land, were victims of the Fulani herdsmen.”
very thoughtful advice. lol
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