By Sampson Boroh
The Bayelsa State Government has arraigned three herders for violating the state anti-open grazing law.
The three suspects were charged by the Bayelsa State Livestock Management Committee before a Magistrate’s Court in Yenagoa, the state capital.
Governor Douye Diri had in February signed the state anti-open grazing bill into law. With the law, herders are banned from open grazing in the state.
Security operatives attached to the committee had arrested them last weekend for contravening the Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Regulations Law 2021.
Presiding Magistrate, Stanley Ekeru, in his ruling granted the three suspects bail with the sum of N200,000 each, with a clause that the bail would only be perfected by a surety who owns landed property and resides in the state.
He also adjoined the case till December 21 for a hearing.
