Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says
his office has no hand in the setting up of Ruga settlement in some parts of
the country.
According to the federal
government, Ruga settlement is an initiative meant to address the incessant
clashes between cattle rearers and farmers.
An official of the Miyetti Allah
Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) had said the vice-president’s
office is overseeing the settlement.
Baba Ngelzarma, MACBAN general secretary,
made the claim when he featured on a Channels Television programme on Friday
morning.
But reacting via Laolu Akande,
his spokesman, Osinbajo said the Ruga settlement “is not being surpervised” by
his office.
He also said the initiative is
different from the livestock transformation plan approved under the auspices of
the national economic council (NEC) which he chairs.
He said the plan had been
approved by the council in January based on the recommendations of one of its
committees featuring mostly governors of the frontline states in the
farmer-herder crises.
“The National Livestock
Transformation Plan (NLTP) 2019-2028 is a programme to be implemented in seven
pilot states of Adamawa, Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara
(as decided by NEC in January), being states on the frontlines of the
Farmer-Herder crises,” Akande said in a statement.
“Afterwards, six other states
have indicated readiness to also implement the plan. They are Katsina, Kano,
Kogi, Kwara, Ondo, and Edo states
“The plan has six pillars through
which it aims to transform the livestock production system in Nigeria along
market oriented value chain while ensuring an atmosphere of peace and justice.
“The six key pillars include:
economic investment, conflict resolution justice and peace humanitarian relief
and early recovery human capital development and cross-cutting issues such as
gender, youth, research and information and strategic communication.”
The statement added that the
federal government will not impose any initiative on states.
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