A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Ntufa Mba Ukweni, has warned Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State that no amount of sycophancy of socketing to the centre would insulate the state from whatever plague that might befall the other Southern States or even the other states in the country.
Ukweni, who presented the keynote address on behalf of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria at the Special Court Session held to mark the official opening of the 2021/2022 Legal Year of the High Court of Cross River State, expressed worry that Governor Ayade was not concerned “with good governance, the feelings of Cross Riverians, interstate cooperation and coordination; but with the use of force, manipulative tendencies and intimidation even in a democracy.”
The SAN submitted that the way the governor acted as if he could not be bothered by the activities of his counterparts in the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) by not attending any of the meetings called by the Forum, indicated that Ayade “operates as if Cross River State is an island.”
Ukweni equally warned that the plans by the governor to plant grass for herders in the state would spell doom in the nearest future as being experienced at the moment in Southern Kaduna.
He reiterated that the issue of the ban on open grazing did not start now, but was reinforced by Justice Adewale Thompson’s judgement of 1969, where the late jurist held that it was primitive to ask farmers to fence their farms while herdsmen operated free-range system for their herds.
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