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HERDERS ATTACKS: Gov. Obaseki Tasks Edo North’s Traditional Rulers On Removal Of Illegal Camps

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“Consequent to the above directive by the State  Government and the unanimous decision of the Okpameri Nation, you are hereby admonished to issue a quit notice to all the occupiers of illegal camps in your community forests, giving them up till the end of August 2022 to leave”

Edo State

PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | AUGUST 16, 2022
The recent signing of the Anti-Grazing Bill into an Act by the Edo state government has reeved up communities’ awareness and vigilance to the menace of banditry and kidnapping that have bedevilled Edo north in the past months.

In a press statement issued on the August 15th, 2022 by the Dr Kingsley Ekundayo, Chairman, Okpameri Descendants Union (ODU) and directed to traditional rulers in the domain, the government has “ordered the removal of all illegal camps from Edo State forests including Okpameri land that kidnappers and bandits are using as hideouts with immediate effect”

It will be recalled that herders have been implicated in the spate of killing, torture, maiming and rapping of women in that part of Edo state in recent months.

See details of instructions sent to traditional rulers of the domain below:

To All:
Traditional Rulers,
Village Heads,
Chiefs

Dear Sir,

NOTICE OF GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVE/OKPAMERI RESOLUTION ON OPEN GRAZING AND OTHER LIVESTOCK.

FolIowing the renewed insecurity in Edo State by kidnappers and bandits who are masquerading as herdsmen across the entire State, the Edo State Government on May  27, 2022, signed the Anti-Open Grazing/Movements of Cows/Other Livestock Bill into law and on July 16, 2022, ordered the removal of all illegal camps from Edo State forests including Okpameri land that kidnappers and bandits are using as hideouts with immediate effect.

Consequent to the above directive by the State Government and the unanimous decision of the Okpameri Nation, you are hereby admonished to issue a quit notice to all the occupiers of illegal camps in your community forests, giving them up till the end of August 2022 to leave. Relevant bodies, agencies and Okpameri Unions should be copied.

Thank you for your expected compliance and accept the warmest regards of the  Okpameri Nation.

Signed:
Dr Kingsley Ekundayo, Chairman, Okpameri Descendants Union (ODU)

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