THE BILL FOR RECOLONISATION AND ENSLAVEMENT

This is the BILL which your Representatives at the Senate and House of Representatives are towing with. Unfortunately this bill has nothing to do with the constitution therefore it would not require consent from 24 state Assemblies. Once it is passed by the National Assembly, and assented to by the president, then it becomes law. You will therefore begin to share territory with gun welding herdsmen who have licence to kill and rape.

This has nothing to do with religion. These herdsmen hardly practice any religion anyway. But it has plenty to do with your life, your future and the future of your children. There is nothing in that bill to suggest your right as Indigene would be considered. It is all about the rights of the Fulanis many of whom are not even from Nigeria. They already have the arms, what they need now is the launch pad, and your leaders are sleeping. Thinking everything is about APC or PDP.

The Bill’s concluding Explanatory Memorandum says that the Bill seeks to provide for, among other things, the establishment of the National Grazing Reserve Commission of Nigeria, for the preservation and control of national grazing reserves and stock routes in the country. Its key provisions and high points include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. To establish a National Grazing Reserve Commission (NGRC), a body corporate.
2. The NGRC may acquire, hold, lease or dispose of any property, moveable or immoveable for the purpose of carrying out its function.
3. The NGRC shall have a governing Council headed by a Chairman appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate with members representing the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Resources, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment,Housing and Urban Development, the National Commission for Nomadic Education and shall also have a Director General.
4. To raise monies by way of grants, loans, borrowing, subsidies and donations.
5. The following lands may be subject to the provisions of the Act to be constituted as National Grazing Reserves and Stock Routes:
(a) Lands at the disposal of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
(b) Any lands in respect of which it appears to the Commission that grazing in such land should be practiced.
(c) Any land acquired by the Commission through purchase, assignment, gift or otherwise howsoever.
6. State Governments shall be given notice first before land acquisition and gazetting.
7. The Commission shall pay compensation to persons affected by any land acquisition.
8. There shall be no improvements, encroachment, bush burning, hunting, use of chemicals and felling of trees by anyone inside lands acquired and demarcated as National Grazing Reserves or Stock Routes.
9. Contravention of any of the provisions in (8) above shall be punishable by a fine of N50,000 or 5 years imprisonment or both.
10. No Court of law shall carry out execution of its judgment or attachment of court process issued against the Commission in any action or suit without obtaining the prior consent of the Attorney General of the Federation.
11. For the time being, the Commission shall report to the Honorable Minster for Agriculture and Water Resources.
12. Native communities referred to in the Bill shall be any group of persons occupying any lands in accordance with, and subject to native law and custom.
13. Stock Routes shall mean tertiary or secondary or inter-state stock routes linking two or more States together or leading from grazing reserve to grazing reserve.
14. When passed into law, the Act shall be cited as The National Grazing Reserve Commission (Establishment and Development) Bill 2008.

RIGHT A LETTER TODAY TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY TELLING HIM THAT THAT BILL MUST NOT STAND

~ Tijani Adisa Gadani