BREAKING News: Grazing Bill for Herdsmen Passes First Reading at Senate

National Assembly, Abuja

 

During today's plenary session at the National Assembly, members of the Nigerian senate passed for first reading, a bill to establish grazing reserves for cattles across the country.

 

Rabiu Kwankwaso, a senator from Kano central, who sponsored the bill titled it: "National Grazing Reserves Agency Bill, 2016", as it was read the first time at the senate on Wednesday.

 

There was also a similar bill titled "National Ranching Commision Bill" which was sponsored by Barbabas Gemade, a senator representating Benue North East, and it also scaled the first reading‎.

 

The bill‎s are coming at time that there have been reports of attacks by fulani herdsmen across the country. The killings in Nimbo, Enugu state and Agatu in Benue state‎, are some of the recent reported attacks.

 

Below are tweets we gathered from the Nigerian senate's page;