Bayelsa State Government impounds 44 cows over violation of anti-open grazing law

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By Pelumi Emmanuel

Published: January 23, 2022 | 12:52 PM

In Yenagoa, the Bayelsa government has impounded 44 cows for breaking the state’s anti-open grazing law.

On Saturday afternoon, January 22, the Task Force on the Implementation and Enforcement of the Law, commanded by the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. David Alagoa, and accompanied by security officers, detained the cows along Imiringi Road.

It was gathered that the herders and owners of the cows were not arrested alongside the cows. Farmers in Bayelsa State have lamented the destruction of their farmlands by cattle, urging the state government to ensure that the anti-open grazing law is totally enforced to avoid conflicts. Recently, some farmers along the Tombia-Amassoma Road axis in Okutukutu community of Yenagoa, while counting their losses due to the destruction of their farms by cattle, said the invasion of their farmlands by herders was affecting their incomes.

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