What can we say to this? Are our leaders ignorant of this judgement or are too busy with politicking?

JUSTICE ADEWALE THOMPSON BANNED OPEN GRAZING ON 17TH APRIL 1969 AND WARNED OF UNPROVOKED KILLINGS BY FULANI HERDSMEN*

Hon. Justice Adewale Thompson Bans Open Grazing in Nigeria

It is high time states put this law into practice and end unprovoked killings by Fulani herdsmen.

*Hon.Justice Adewale Thompson’s 1969 Judgment on Open Cattle Grazing – Suit no AB/26/66.*
Hon.Justice Adewale Thompson: 17th April, 1969.
Suit no AB/26/66 at Abeokuta Division of the High Court.

“I do not accept the contention of Defendants that a custom exists which imposes an obligation on the owner of farm to fence his farm whilst the owner of cattle allows his cattle to wander like pests and cause damage. Such a custom if it exists, is unreasonable and I hold that it is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience and therefore unenforceable…in that it is highly unreasonable to impose the burden of fencing a farm on the farmer without the corresponding obligation on the cattle owner to fence in his cattle.” Sequence to that I banned open grazing for it is inimical to peace and tranquility and the cattle owners must fence or ranch their animals for peace to reign in these communities.

Is Akeredolu aware of this court ruling which is a law in Nigeria? Why are the governors not enforcing this ruling? If we enforce this rule there will be peace in Nigeria. It appears to me there is no political will to enforce the rule. No civilised country allows open grazing of cattle in forests and farmlands belonging to other people. It’s unjust.

The issue no be today!

Great judgment!!

So it has stayed this long , cattle rustlers are not easy to reason with anywhere in the world it has always been like that, each Governor should pass a law asap, provide their part ways for them, before dey finish us ooh

State Governor are free to pass their own laws

They specialize in infiltrating one or two states at most at a time. Benue has been subdued. Plateau too. Time to move down south.

CodeTemplar:
They specialize in infiltrating one or two states at most at a time. Benue has been subdued. Plateau too. Time to move down south.

The relevant question people should be asking is this:
how is it that this Fulani problem either wasn't existent or was not so rampant during the regimes of Obasanjo,YarAdua (a fellow Northerner,same Katsina state like Buhari),and Jonathan?
The issue is that this present president is a supporter of these people's acts and has a northern agenda, directly or indirectly.
Unless implicit or open support of the Fulanis devilish acts are divorced from the government of the moment,they will continue perpetuating this impunity.