Yenagoa—A Magistrate Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has granted bail to 3 herders arrested by the enforcement of team of the Bayelsa State Livestock Management Committee.
They were charged to court for violating the state’s anti-open grazing law.
Mangrovepen.ng gathered that the Presiding Magistrate, Stanley Ekeru, in his ruling granted the 3 suspects bail with the sum of N200,000.
According to the ruling, their bail would only be perfected by a surety who owns landed property and reside in the state.
The case was adjoined to 21 December 2021 for a hearing.
It will be recalled that the herders were arrested around Royal Tulip hotel in Onopa, Tombia-Amassoma road and Zarama respectively on 27 November 2020, by the enforcement of team of the Bayelsa State Livestock Management Committee led by Comrade Clever Inodu, alongside security operatives.
