Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has officially rendered open cattle grazing illegally.
“I signed the Law to prohibit open cattle grazing and the trespass of cattle on land in Lagos state. By this act, the Bill has now become a law,” Sanwo-Olu wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday, September 9, 2021, passed the bill entitled, “A bill for a law to Prohibit Open Cattle Grazing In Lagos State, the Trespass of Cattle Land And For Other Connected Purposes”.
Speaker Mudashiru Obasa subsequently directed the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Sanwo-Olu for assent.
The bill was passed after unanimous votes by the lawmakers at the sitting where the bill was read the third time.
Earlier, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association said that a cow could cost up to N2 million in Lagos if the anti-grazing bill is passed into law in the state.
But Yoruba chieftain Gani Adams said the South-West would eat fish if the price of beef soars.
