From Wole Balogun, Ado-Ekiti
It was drama yesterday when Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose supervised the arrest of some strayed cows which grazed on a restricted area leading to his countryhome, Afao-Ekiti in Irepodun-Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.
The governor’s action was to press home a resolve to uphold the anti-grazing law he signed recently, which prohibits grazing in some restricted areas of the state.
The governor led armed security men and some youths to arrest one of the cows that grazed along Ado-Afao Road.
The governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka posted on his Facebook page that the two herdsmen who allowed the coes graze along that stretch of road ran into the bush on sighting the governor while youths pursued the cows and caught one of them.
“Governor Fayose was going to Ikole Ekiti when he came across herdsmen along Afao Ekiti Road, Ado -Ekiti. The governor demonstrated seriousness of the state’s Anti-Grazing law by personally seeing to it that one of the cows was “arrested” by youths who chased after the cows after the herdsmen ran into the bush upon seeing the governor’s security men. The remaining cows ran into the bush too,” Olayinka said.
The governor’s spokesperson also disclosed that the Ekiti Grazing Enforcement Marshalls (EGEM) will start work in few days’ time.