SENATE Committee Chairman on Appropriation and representative of Edo South senatorial zone in the National Assembly, Senator Matthew Urhoghide has said that the executive bill before the National Assembly which mandates states to provide land for cattle ranching has died a natural death.
He disclosed that apart from members of the main opposition party who opposed the bill, parliamentarians from the All Progressives Congress, APC also lobbied that the bill be killed.
Senator Urhoghide, who spoke to News men in Benin City, Edo State, yesterday said: “Nobody can cede any land to anybody in this country because the problem in Plateau State where over 200 people were killed and others displaced was because the original owners of land gave their land to the herdsmen to settle. We are seeing the same problem here in Edo State.
He warned that any attempt by anyone to cede an inch of Edo land for cattle grazing will be resisted by the people, adding “Edo State cannot afford to have a replay of what is happening in Plateau and other states in the country.”
He lamented that although the country was not at war, it had lost thousands of people to the senseless killings.
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