Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, has criminalised open grazing of cattle.
Platforms Africa repoets that Governor of the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, signed the bill prohibiting open cattle grazing in the state into law to put an end to the act considered controversial in Nigeria.
He signed the bill into law on Monday.
The governor’s media aide on print media, Wale Ajetunmobi, made this known in a social media message sighted by Platforms Africa.
“Breaking! Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, this afternoon, signs the bill prohibiting open cattle grazing in Lagos into law,” he posted on Facebook.
Platforms Africa had reported that the Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday, September 9, 2021, passed the bill entitled, “A bill for a law to Prohibit Open Cattle Grazing In Lagos State, the Trespass of Cattle Land And For Other Connected Purposes”.
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Speaker Mudashiru Obasa subsequently directed the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for assent.
The bill was passed after unanimous votes by the lawmakers at the sitting where the bill was read the third time.
