The state government had enacted the anti-open grazing law on May 22, 2017, to curb the nefarious activities of herdsmen carrying AK-47 rifles about the state, maiming peasant farmers, killing them and taking over their parcels of land. He lamented that the activities of the notorious criminal elements “are part of the reasons we have still over 1.5 million IDPs in our camps across the state. These terrorist Fulani herdsmen amputated women’s hands. The governor disputed claims that the legislation “is targeted at Fulani herdsmen in the state. Within five years that it had been experimented, Ortom clarified that the law “is not targeted at Fulani herdsmen, Hausa, Jukun or Igbo.

Source: Libya Today January 23, 2022 05:05 UTC