The Association of Southeast Town Unions, ASETU, has said
that the rejection of grazing reserve bill by the South-East, South-South
lawmakers, was in consonance with the association’s stand on the matter.
The president elect of ASETU, Chief Emeka Diwe, who stated
this while fielding questions from Vanguard yesterday in Owerri, said the
lawmakers should be commended for taking such a bold step on one of the issues
threatening the unity of the country.
Recently, the State Houses
of Assembly from the South-East and South-South zones of the country met in
Owerri and defined their position on the controversial grazing reserve bill
before the National Assembly, where they demanded that the bill be thrown into
the trash can, giving the reason that the bill was not in the interest of
Nigerians, adding that it only served a parochial interest. They also used the
opportunity to express their dissonance on the alleged sharing arrangement of
the oil wells in the Niger Delta even as they demanded that 65% of the oil
wells should be given to the oil communities.
They further called
on the Federal Government to adopt dialogue as a way to stop the activities of
militancy in the area which has resulted to bombing of oil pipelines and facilities.
Diwe said, “The stand by different bodies in the zones on the burning issue is
basically to avoid a situation where Fulani herdsmen will again be given the
chance to over run their host communities.
There have been reports in the media where the nomads have
taken laws into their hands by destroying lives and properties of people who
accommodated them in their various communities.” He also pleaded with the
lawmakers at the federal level to respect the views of Nigerians and look
beyond the sentiment attached to it. However, he said that the fundamental
issue of protection of lives and properties be considered in whatever bill that
the lawmakers pass into law as such was the purpose for which they were voted
into power.
-vanguard
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