{"id":7688,"date":"2018-02-24T00:38:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T07:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2018-02-24T00:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T07:38:48","slug":"nigeria-police-cannot-arrest-herdsmen-for-allowing-cattle-to-graze-on-airport-runways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/nigeria-police-cannot-arrest-herdsmen-for-allowing-cattle-to-graze-on-airport-runways\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Police cannot arrest herdsmen for allowing cattle to graze on airport runways, except&#8230;&#8230;. &#8211; CP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7310\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/8F49561C-77C0-477A-AB5D-15CFECCC8689.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/8F49561C-77C0-477A-AB5D-15CFECCC8689.jpeg 766w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/8F49561C-77C0-477A-AB5D-15CFECCC8689-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/8F49561C-77C0-477A-AB5D-15CFECCC8689-100x56.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria Police cannot arrest herdsmen for allowing cattle to graze on airport runways &#8211; CP<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police, Airport Command, Mustapha Dandaura breaks silence.<\/p>\n<p>He said herdsmen could only be arrested in states where the anti-open grazing law was effective. Thus, the helplessness of state governors in Nigeria to police and secure the residents of their states.<\/p>\n<p>He told PUNCH correspondents that, \u201cIt\u2019s only in states where the anti-open grazing law is in place that herdsmen can be arrested for allowing their cattle to graze on airport runways. Apart from those states, we have not been told from Abuja to start arresting herdsmen\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, an Air Peace flight from Lagos had been prevented from landing at the Akure Airport, Ondo State as cows took over the runway.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident had occurred in November 2016 when a fully-loaded plane belonging to Air Peace had to abort landing at the Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri, Imo State when the pilot discovered that the runway had been invaded by cows.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Owerri episode, an Air France plane was reported to have collided with cows at the runway of the Port Harcourt International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Source: PUNCH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Police cannot arrest herdsmen for allowing cattle to graze on airport runways &#8211; CP The Commissioner of Police, Airport Command, Mustapha Dandaura breaks silence. He said herdsmen could only be arrested in states where the anti-open grazing law was effective. Thus, the helplessness of state governors in Nigeria to police and secure the residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria Police cannot arrest herdsmen for allowing cattle to graze on airport runways, except....... - CP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria Police cannot arrest herdsmen for allowing cattle to graze on airport runways, except....... - CP\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/nigeria-police-cannot-arrest-herdsmen-for-allowing-cattle-to-graze-on-airport-runways\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria Police cannot arrest herdsmen for allowing cattle to graze on airport runways, except....... - CP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria Police cannot arrest herdsmen for allowing cattle to graze on airport runways, except....... - CP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/nigeria-police-cannot-arrest-herdsmen-for-allowing-cattle-to-graze-on-airport-runways\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NigeriaNewsWeb\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-02-24T07:38:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/8F49561C-77C0-477A-AB5D-15CFECCC8689.jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/nigeria-police-cannot-arrest-herdsmen-for-allowing-cattle-to-graze-on-airport-runways\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/nigeria-police-cannot-arrest-herdsmen-for-allowing-cattle-to-graze-on-airport-runways\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/db1344e5d6b91e2f5d2eb1e20414504e\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria Police cannot arrest herdsmen for allowing cattle to graze on airport runways, except&#8230;&#8230;. &#8211; 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