Court sends 2 herdsmen to jail over violation of Benue grazing law

A Magistrate Court in Benue State has sentenced two herdsmen to one-year imprisonment for violating the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of Benue State.

The court presided over by Chief Magistrate, Isaac Ajim sentenced the herdsmen, Sani Adamu and Abdullahi Musa, who are from Ayangba in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State, on Monday for the offence.

However, the Chief Magistrate, who tempered justice with mercy following pleas from the convicts, gave them an option of fine in the sum of N500,000 each.

He said any of them who failed to pay the fine would serve a jail term of one year.

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Earlier in his ruling, in the suit filed by police in the state, Ajim said that the prosecution called two witnesses, including a member of the State Livestock Guards and had proved its case beyond all reasonable doubt to warrant conviction of the herders.

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