The Benue State government has raised the fine for impounded animals from two thousand naira to fifty thousand naira with an additional twenty thousand naira quarantine fee in the amended Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of 2022.
Governor Samuel Ortom who disclosed this yesterday while signing the amended law said failure to claim the animals after seven days empowers the state Ministry of Agriculture to auction the animals, in line with the law. He added that while other portions of the law remained as they were, another amended area covered the seven days period of grace during which the confiscated livestock must be claimed by their owners or risk being unction. Recall that, Benue State Government is the first to enact a law prohibiting open grazing in 2017.
Chidozie Chima | September 20, 2024
