Plateau monarch calls for ban on open grazing amid rising insecurity

The paramount ruler of Irigwe chiefdom successful Bassa LGA of Plateau State, Brra Ngwe Irigwe Ronku Aka, has called connected the federal, authorities and section governments to prohibition unfastened grazing, saying it volition trim insecurity.

Aka made the telephone during the ceremonial of 7 victims of attacks by suspected Fulani militia, held astatine Nzharuvo Miango District successful Bassa LGA.

He said, “If unfastened grazing is banned, my radical volition get peace, and bid volition proceed to beryllium enjoyed crossed this country.”

The victims, mostly children, were identified arsenic Joshua Ngwe Ayuba (9yrs), Tamar Monday (13yrs), Nancy Monday (17yrs), Matthew Zongo Sunday (17yrs), Henry Fah Yakubu (17yrs), Nuhu Isaiah Zongo (19yrs), and Abbas Musa Sunday (58yrs).

Aka stressed, “You cannot beryllium a main without people. You person to regularisation people, not stones, not trees.

“I’m calling connected authorities to intervene and halt this sidesplitting with contiguous effect.”

President Irigwe Development Association, Daniel Gyan, described the attacks arsenic “gen...