Senate steps down bills on grazing, cites constitutional limitations

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The Senate yesterday ventured down three bills on the disputable issue of brushing in the nation.

They are: "A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Establishment of Grazing Areas Management Agency and Other Related Matters 2016", supported by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso (APC, Kano Central); "A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Establishment of National Ranches Commission for the Regulation, Management, Preservation and Control of Ranches and Connected Purposes 2016", supported by Senator Barnabas Gemade (APC, Benue North-East); and "A Bill for an Act to Control the Keeping and Movement of Cattle in Nigeria and Other Related Matters 2016", supported by  off chance that we don't have the forces to do it, then we simply squander our time. Be that as it may, in the event that we have, I think we ought to listen to the benefits and standards."

Senate President Bukola Saraki revealed he had officially held a talk with supporters of the bills, asking them to orchestrate their positions and present a uniform report.

"It is clear from the dialog today that it is not really. Also, my view is that since the premise by which they went ahead the Order Paper has changed, the path forward is for us to step it down from the Order Paper of today. I will need the Leader to move that we step it down from the Order Paper of today to another authoritative day," he said.

Then, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has reprimanded the Federal Government for deciding to exchange with furnished Fulani aggressors.

It asked: "How does an enlightened government mean to exchange with killers who have wrecked such cultivating groups as Agatu in Benue State, Godogodo in Southern Kaduna State, and have assaulted groups in Kogi, Enugu, Abia, Delta and the vast majority of Middle Belt conditions of Plateau and Tarawa?"

The gathering's announcement takes after constitution by the Minister of Interior Abdulrahman Dambazau on Monday of an advisory group to determine conflicts between the Fulani and ranchers.

"This time-squandering and cash swallowing advisory group is absolutely unlawful and sums to an endeavor to usurp the lawful elements of law authorization powers, similar to the police and lawyers general, where such killings have happened."

HURIWA rejected the activity as an endeavor to give delicate arriving to criminals who camouflaged as herders and brought about the passings of a great many Nigerians and pulverized property and products worth billions of naira.