Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has suspended the state’s coordinator of Anti-Grazing Agency, Sola Durodola over alleged comments about Fulani herdsmen.
Durodola’s suspension comes barely 48 hours after he made a public statement to the fact that the state had resolved to embark on mass registration of herders operating in the state, as part of measures to stem the tide of clashes between them and farmers.
Durodola was asked to hand over all government property in his care to the most senior officer in the agency.
Meanwhile, the state government has dissociated itself from the information given by Durodola that modalities had been put in place to begin registration of herdsmen in the state.
The state government described the information as fake and irresponsible, and did not represent the plans of the Fayemi led administration, neither did it have the approval of the governor.
The anti-grazing agency was the initiative of former governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose who in the face clashes between herders and farmers who placed a ban on open grazing in the state.
(NAN)