The 17 governors in the southern region are set to meet in Lagos State on Monday to discuss President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to dig up a 1963 gazzete on the recovery of cow grazing routes for fulani herders.

The governors who would be hosted by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the meeting which is scheduled to start by 10am, will have all the southern governors in attendance.

"At the Asaba meeting, the governors had come up with a communiqué which banned open grazing as part of moves to address killings and kidnapping by herdsmen, but the President, in a recorded television interview in June, said he would mandate Malami to dig up a gazzete meant at recovering grazing routes, thereby enforcing open grazing.

When asked if he was in agreement with the AGF’s stance in support of open grazing, Buhari had responded:

Yes' or do “You want me to contradict my attorney-general?

“What I did was to ask him to go and dig the gazette of the First Republic.

“There were cattle routes and grazing areas. Cattle routes are for when they (herdsmen) are moving up country, north to south or east to west, they had to go through there. They need those routes back in order to move their cattles."

No routes necessary.

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There are no grazing routes in the East.
Grazing routes were only gazetted in the north.