Ekiti inaugurates marshals to impose anti-grazing law

The Ekiti State government has urged marshals to impose the Anti-Grazing Law 2016 and prevent farmers and herders clashes across the 16 local government areas.

Speaking at the inauguration of the officers on Monday, the Marshal Coordinator, Sola Durodola, said the marshals are saddled with the responsibility to ensure that herders abide by the law that regulates grazing within the hours allowed by law and restriction of their movement.

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Durodola also urged the marshals to monitor disreputable activities of loggers in the forest adding that illegal felling of economic trees in the forest has robbed the state government of huge revenues that would have been used to the benefit of the people.

The coordinator warned newly recruited marshals against involvement in dishonest deals and corrupt practices capable of jeopardising the mandate of the agency after stressing that any officer caught in illegal practices would be made to face the full wrath of the law.

While speaking with reporters, some of the newly recruited marshals, vowed to work in line with the mandate of the agency by defending the confidence reposed in them.

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