The Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, was at
the weekend quoted as saying there is no such bill on national grazing reserve
before the National Assembly and if there is, NASS will not support it, reports
NaijaAgroNet.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had reported Ekweremadu as saying
that this is a hoax, while addressing newsmen on Sunday after a meeting of the
South East governors and stakeholders in Enugu.
Ekweremadu had insisted that there was no bill on the
creation of grazing reserves before the National Assembly.
He therefore said that the purported bill for the creation
of grazing reserves was a “hoax”, adding that the press should strive to stop
such rumours.
“There is no such proposal or bill on the creation of
grazing reserves either in the Senate or House of Representatives. Nobody is
considering it; not even at the executive level. I do not think they are
considering it but we will not support it even if it has been considered,” he
said.
Investigations by NaijaAgroNet showed that truly there is no
such bill listed before the 8th Senate.
According to NaijaAgroNet findings, the purported bill for
National Grazing Reserve Bill was initially presented to the National Assembly
in 2008 sponsored by Senator Zainab Kure.
The bill sought to become an Act to provide for the
establishment of the National Grazing Reserve (Establishment and Development)
Commission for the Preservation and Control of National Grazing Reserves and
Stock Routes and for other Matters Connected Therewith.
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