Ekiti begins enforcement of cattle grazing prohibition law

..Inaugurates enforcement marshals

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has inaugurated the Ekiti
Grazing Enforcement Marshalls (EGEM), the body saddled with the
enforcement of the recently signed Prohibition of Cattle and other
Ruminants Grazing in Ekiti State Law, with a mandate to rid the State
of the menace of herdsmen and declaration that he will not sit back
and watch when Ekiti people were being killed, their wives and
daughters being raped and their sources of livelihood being destroyed
under the guise of cattle rearing.

The inauguration was witnessed by all major stakeholders in the state,
including traditional rulers, chiefs, local hunters, police, army,
civil defence, private sector unions, among others.