{"id":850,"date":"2021-02-21T07:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=850"},"modified":"2021-02-21T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:25:53","slug":"falana-criticizes-bauch-gov-balas-position-on-open-grazing-says-he-once-punished-abuja-residents-for-trespassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/02\/21\/falana-criticizes-bauch-gov-balas-position-on-open-grazing-says-he-once-punished-abuja-residents-for-trespassing\/","title":{"rendered":"Falana criticizes Bauch Gov, Bala&#8217;s position on open grazing, says he once punished Abuja residents for trespassing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has criticised the position of Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed on grazing by Fulani herdsmen in the\u00a0Southern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement signed and released to journalists by the legal practitioner on Saturday, February 20.<\/p>\n<p>Falana insinuated that it was hypocritical for Bala Mohammed who demolished people\u2019s houses because they encroached on government land as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/02\/20\/bauchi-governor-mohammed-reveals-the-real-beneficiaries-of-banditry\/\">herdsmen<\/a> have a right to stray into people\u2019s land and reside in forest reserves without government permission.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer who also wondered why the Governor who\u00a0defended herdsmen carrying AK-47 rifles could go on to demolish a house storing such guns, averred that\u00a0Section 43 of the constitution allows freedom of movement but does not\u00a0give anyone the freedom to settle anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>He said;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cUnder the Bala Mohammed administration in the FCT, thousands of houses were demolished on the grounds that they were illegally built on landed properties belonging to the Federal Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ex-minister wanted to demolish the entire Mpape housing over a million people. He had claimed that the owners of the various properties had trespassed on the land belonging to the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people whose properties had been marked for demolition briefed our law firm to seek legal redress. On behalf of the community, we approached the FCT High Court for urgent intervention. In an epochal judgment delivered by the Justice Kutigi, the planned demolition was halted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Bala Mohammed has ordered that a house being used as a den of criminal activities in Bauchi and ordered that 1,000 rifles found therein be confiscated. But the same governor said last week that herders be allowed to bear AK 47 rifles illegally in spite of overwhelming evidence that the weapons are being used to take over farmlands, kidnap people and rape women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if the building warehousing 1000 AK-47 rifles in Bauchi was demolished by Governor Bala Mohammed why is he asking Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to allow herders armed with scores of AK-47 rifles to operate in Ondo State without licences issued by the appropriate authorities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Falana further asked Bala to stop deceiving herdsmen, while querying him for mounting pressure on corporate bodies engaged in the exploration of crude oil in Alkaleri Local Government to pay compensation to members of Baranbo community but claiming that land belongs to no one when Fulani herdsmen are asked to vacate forest reserves in Ondo state.<\/p>\n<p>He added;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cGovernor Bala Mohammed should stop misleading herders to acquire land for cattle business without complying with the Land Use Act, Urban and Regional Law, Forestry Law, Anti Grazing Law in the affected states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn particular, the attention of the governor ought to be drawn to Section 42 (1) (e) and (g) of the Forestry Law Cap 56 Laws of Ondo State, 2006 which provides that whoever in any forest reserve, except with the authority in writing of the prescribed officer, digs, cuts, turns or cultivates the soil or makes a farm or plantation; pastures cattle or permits cattle to trespass or trespasses in any part of a forest reserves in which trespass shall be prohibited by an order of the governor or during any period specified in an order of the Governor shall be liable on summary conviction as the court may impose or to imprisonment for five years or to both.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has criticised the position of Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed on grazing by Fulani herdsmen in the\u00a0Southern part of the country. 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