Posted By: Onyedi Ojiabor

If the Bill for an Act to provide for the establishment of the National Livestock protection, control and management Bureau is passed by the National Assembly, no less than 19.5 million cattle will be officially identified in the country.

Also to be identified according to 2011 National Agricultural Sample Survey of the livestock population in the country included 72.5 million goats, 41.5 million sheep, 7.1 million pigs, 145 million chicken, 11.6 million docks and 1.2 million turkey.

Entitled, A Bill for an Act to provide for the establishment of the National Livestock (Protection, control, and management) Bureau for the purpose of livestock identification, traceability, registration, cattle rustling control and for other related purposes, sponsored by Senator Abu Ibrahim (Katsina South) scaled second reading yesterday in the Senate.

Senator Ibrahim in his lead debate noted that the move would improve food security, animal genetics and better flock management as well as manage animal health and disease control.

He noted that in April 2015, sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria, adopted a declaration in Pretoria, South Africa, on animal identification and recording.

Senator Ibrahim reminded his colleagues that Nigeria has about 40 percent of the entire cattle population in West Africa.

He said that Lagos as a metropolitan city has the largest livestock market in West Africa where a transaction of over 5,000 cows, 8,000 to 10,000 sheep and goats is recorded daily.

“It is worthy to note that in the Beef Production Index Report of May 2016, Nigeria was not even mentioned, among the top 52 producing countries. A list that had countries like Gambia and Congo,” he said.

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lol lol

No comment.

this country is a joke

Ahhh....my brothers up north will speedily approve of and pass this bill. Anything that will improve the welfare of cattle and goats is welcome.

Serious effort will be put into getting an accurate figure for the population of live stocks....animals that are raised, sold and slaughtered for meat within some months. But no serious attempt will ever be made towards getting a near accurate population figure for the country.
Won't be surprised to see each cow issued with an ID card too.

Human Cow lives matter!

Issokay

Am speechless... I weep for my country

If there exists any doubt that this country glory dey inside lagoon, this should limuf it..

Bunch of overpaid, under utilized naysayers (pun intended)

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We have many Northerners in the Senate, so I'm not surprised.... Is this the next thing? Cow identity?

How many people have they identified

Haha hash a. I've got an idea, they shud start giving the cows name. Call them names like Umar Yakunzi 01. Better identification. Haha haha a

Your citizens are been slaughtered on daily basis yet its cow and goat that's important
Did Nnamdi Kalu renamed Nigeria?

Fulani are 1st class citizens. Everything about them must be protected

Frank3n2:
Am speechless... I weep for my country

Weep for yourself. ...and it's "I'm", not "am".

misplaced priority

The same senate didn't see anything good in identifying the poor citizens but rather thinking of prioritizing animals.
90 percent of the cattle belongs to the rich.
What hurts the most is seeing the poor masses die for them at polls.

Government of the rich by the poor

Na cows Nd goats be our problem

Cow and goat census...

so cows will now have national I'd card abi still watching

is this a country?

Are they serious?

For the fear of the murderous hausa-fulani tribe, this bill was passed. For their fear, this motion was set. But truth be told. The northern oligarchs and feudalists have a well hatched conspiracy to legitimise their expansionist ideology. They sought for it through jihad and failed. They flirted with the pogroms of the 1960s and the civil war but failed. They trialled the sharia option died on arrival. Now they want to explore with the last resort. The legal resort. Let us resist this demonic bill now or our children won't forgive us for sleeping while the enemy sowed the tares.

These people must be joking. The national human population census dem do, dem no do am well wey dem dey count dead people join the population. Shey na animals dem go come count well. Something must be wrong with our leaders. Instead of them finding a way for us to get out of this crisis, dem won count goat, cow, chicken, pig, sheep. Something is wrong with our leaders oooo.

What kind of rubbish is this! Are these cattle national property? Are they not private property, can't they protect their investment? Why do they need a legislation? Identification of animals in south Africa are they talking about livestock ? Is that not wildlife.

Which kain rubbish be this. Our national identity scheme has not been working we want to concentrate on cattle identity. Wetin be this naa