Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has maintained that there is no going back on Southern governors decision to ban open grazing in the region seeing that the seventeen state governors are taking necessary steps to enforce the decision.
According to the governor, the ban on opening grazing and movement of cattles from the north to the south must be enforced.
Speaking to newsmen on Saturday, Ikpeazu said the ban will prevent the activities of criminal herdsmen in the region.
He said: “We are now at the point of making sure that we enforce and implement it and even in doing that I must also share what I see as a challenge to the enforcement of that law.
“The law is in place and we are taking steps to enforce it.
“It has become imperative that we enforce that law strictly because we just noticed that we have big-time trouble in our hands.
“We have those that we refer to as criminal herdsmen; they are different from the ordinary herdsmen that we have been living with all these years.
“We now have in our mist bandits that have infiltrated from the rest of West Africa and other parts of Africa and their assignment is to come here rape, kill and kidnap people for money.
“It is now very imperative that we enforce that law.”
