Moments ago, the Federal Government suspended the plan by the President Buhari
administration to build Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) settlements in some states
across Nigeria.
The Chairman of the National Food Security/Herders/Farmers
Conflict, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, briefing State House
correspondents at the end of a meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo, stated that the suspension “is owing to lack of consistency with the
NEC and FG approved national livestock transformation plan, which has programme
of rehabilitation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) resulting from the
crisis and development of ranching in any willing state.”
The governor added that “the NEC says it is not compulsory
and any state willing is required to put up a development plan towards the
implementation in line with the NEC program based on the challenges inherent
there.”
Those at the meeting were governors of Ebonyi, Dave Umahi,
Plateau, Simon Lalong, Kebbi, Atiku Bagudu and Adamawa Deputy Governor, Bala
Ngilari. The National Livestock Transformation Plan approved by state governors
under the auspices of the National Economic Council (NEC) is chaired by the
Vice President.
The NEC had on January 17 approved the plan based on the
recommendations of a Technical Committee of the Council chaired by the Governor
of Ebonyi State. Other state governors
on the committee and Working Group of the NEC are those od Adamawa, Kaduna,
Benue, Taraba, Edo, Plateau, Oyo and Zamfara – mostly frontline states in the
Farmer-Herder crises.
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