The Delta State Government On Thursday said that it
had taken pre-emptive measures aimed at curtailing the menace of cattle rearers
ravaging parts of the country, by constituting a high-powered security
committee to control the movement of cattle in the state.
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan disclosed this to journalists after an expanded
Security Council meeting, comprising principal officers of the State House of
Assembly, heads of security agencies in the state, traditional rulers, council
chairmen and religious leaders and northern leaders, which held at the
Government House Annex in Warri.
Dr. Uduaghan, who raised alarm about the influx of strange persons into the
state, stated that while the State Government welcomed genuine strangers, it
would not fold its arms and allow the state to be overrun by people with
criminal intentions.
According to the Governor, the State Commissioner of Police would head the
task-force with two members of the State Assembly, two commissioners,
representatives of security agencies, traditional rulers, council chairmen and
the northern community as members, while the Office of the Secretary to the
State Government would serve as secretariat.
The task-force would, among other things, control the movement of cattle
into and within the state with a view to nipping in the bud any attempt by
herdsmen to cause a breach of the relationship.
It was observed that the state has a peculiar security challenge
between cattle rearers and farmers, and the situation in recent times had taken
a new dimension with the influx of herdsmen carrying arms which they have been
using in terrorizing farmers, snowballing into killing and raping of women. - Channels
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