…Says AGF unable to distill issues as expected of a Senior Advocate
By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has reacted to the statement credited to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, insisting that the decision of the southern governors to ban open grazing has come to stay and will be enforced with vigour.
This is also as the governor has said that it’s most unfortunate that the AGF is unable to distill issues as expected of a Senior Advocate.
Precise Post recalls that Malami had while reacting to the open grazing ban by southern governors said that the decision is equivalent to banning all spare parts dealers in the north and unconstitutional.
Akeredolu therefore said that comparing this anachronism, which has led to loss of lives, farmlands and property, and engendered untold hardship on the host communities, with buying and selling of auto parts is not only strange. It, annoyingly, betrays a terrible mindset
He stated this in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen. The statement titled “Our decision is irreversible and will be enforced reads in full:
OUR DECISION IS IRREVERSIBLE AND WILL BE ENFORCE
I have just read the press statement credited to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Shehu Malami SAN on the resolution of the Southern Governors Forum to ban open grazing in their respective States.
The AGF is quoted to have said that this reasoned decision, among others, is akin to banning all spare parts dealers in the Northern parts of the country and is unconstitutional.
It is most unfortunate that the AGF is unable to distill issues as expected of a Senior Advocate. Nothing can be more disconcerting. This outburst should, ordinarily, not elicit response from reasonable people who know the distinction between a legitimate business that is not in anyway injurious and a certain predilection for anarchy.
Comparing this anachronism, which has led to loss of lives, farmlands and property, and engendered untold hardship on the host communities, with buying and selling of auto parts is not only strange. It, annoyingly, betrays a terrible mindset.
Clinging to an anachronistic model of animal husbandry, which is evidently injurious to harmonious relationship between the herders and the farmers as well as the local populace, is wicked and arrogant.
Mr Malami is advised to approach the court to challenge the legality of the Laws of the respective States baning open grazing and decision of the Southern Governor Forum taken in the interest of their people. We shall be most willing to meet him in Court.
The decision to ban open grazing stays. It will be enforced with vigour.
SIGNED
ARAKUNRIN OLUWAROTIMI O AKEREDOLU, SAN
GOVERNOR, ONDO STATE
