Ekiti State government has given farmers and herders another two-week grace to get registered with the state government or be ready to exit the state.
The two-week ultimatum begins on Sunday, March 22.
Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr Olabode Adetoyi, stated this in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday.
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The commissioner said that the exercise was expedient to ensure that all farmers and herders could be accounted for.
He added that the registration was also aimed at ensuring peace between the two groups and bringing incessant clashes between them to an end.
Dr Adetoyi observed that clashes between farmers and herders posed dangers to human and food security, hence the need to take proactive measures to curb the menace.
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Special Adviser to Gov. Kayode Fayemi on security matters and chairman, herders-farmers peace committee, retired Brig.-Gen. Ebenezer Ogundana, warned in the statement that whoever failed to register would be treated as a criminal.
He said such persons, would be compelled to leave the state.
Identity cards would be issued to registered farmers and herders free of charge.
