Herdsmen take over proposed Benue cargo airport

A site earmarked by the Benue State Government for the construction of cargo airport project, located along Makurdi-Lafia Expressway has been taken over by Fulani herdsmen for cattle grazing.

The site invasion, which is about 25 kilometres to Makurdi, the state capital, is already causing serious threat to the communities, which are mainly agrarian.

This is coming barely two months after a law to prohibit open rearing and grazing of livestock that provided for the Establishment of Ranches and Livestock Administration, Regulation and Control and for other Matters connected therewith 2017, popularly known as “Benue Anti-Open Grazing Law” signed into law by Governor Samuel Ortom came to effect.

New Telegraph authoritatively confirmed that herders were freely grazing their cattle on the parcel of land and other farmlands belonging to farmers in the area yesterday when our Correspondent visited the project site.

New Telegraph, December 7, 2017

 

 

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