Anti Open Grazing: Delta Assembly To Regulate Livestock Rearing, Others

The Delta State House of Assembly Joint Committees on Special Bills and Agriculture and Natural Resources, on a bill for a law to provide for the regulation of livestock breeding, rearing and marketing and to prohibit open grazing and related matters, has assured of commitment to give Deltans a clean and all-embracing law.

The assurance was given today at a public hearing on the proposed anti-grazing law by both Chairmen of the joint committees, Hon. Pat Ajudua for Committee on Special Bills and Hon. Austin Chikezie for Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.

The Chairman on Special Bills, Hon. Pat Ajudua and on behalf of the Joint Committees, disclosed this to newsmen today Monday 26th July, 2021, immediately after the Public Hearing on the said Bill at the State House of Assembly complex in Asaba the State Capital.

Hon. Ajudua who is also the chief whip of the House, said that the joint committees has ensure that major stakeholders were invited to make their input.She assured that at the end of the exercise, the committee would come out with a clean bill that Deltans would be proud of.

“The Joint Committees are committed to giving Deltans an all-embracing bill, a bill that will affect Deltans positively, and a bill that will positively affect those involved in cattle Rearing, and cattle business generally.

“This is why we have come to sit-down with various stakeholders to give us their various opinions concerning the success of the bill,”

Hon. Ajudua informed newsmen that the joint committees were made up of carefully selected, brilliant, selfless, and hard-working lawmakers that would ensure a smooth Job was done on the bill.