The Federal Government has proposed N70 million in this year’s budget for Para-military training of 250 personnel, who would rear and care for livestock and cattle at the various ranches in the country.

The livestock include ostrich, horses and other species of birds that are commonly found in the seven parks of the National Park Service (NPS).

Owners or operators of a ranch are called ranchers, cattlemen or stock growers and their training, according to Conservator General of NPS, Abdullahi Hussein, is expected to cost N280, 000, as against the N1.6 million allegedly requested of them by the Nigerian Army for the training of each of the selected personnel.

He said the service had last year granted similar training to 200 of its personnel for N40 million.
Hussein revealed yesterday, while defending the agency’s N3.230 billion in this year’s appropriation and advocating support for enhancing N1.333 billion vote before the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Habitat, in Abuja, chaired by Obinna Chidoka.

Hussein said going by the Army’s request, it would have cost the government N400, 000,000 to train the 250 of the officers, who he said would be drawn from NPS.

Components of the budgeted sum, he said, include procurement of uniform, footwear, berets and batches for the officers.

“In 2017, we are proposing N70 million for the training of 250 ranchers for all our ranches in the country.

“It is expected that the training of each of them will cost government N280, 000, an amount that will cover the purchases of boots, shoes, uniform, berets and batches for them.

“Since it is paramilitary training that is required, we approached the military to offer the training for the officers, but they asked us to pay them N1.6m for each of them, which we cannot afford,” he said.

He also announced the setting aside of N12. 010 million in this year’s budget for the stocking of the museum in the service, as well as N32. 674 million for the procurement of a 250 KVA generator.

In his remarks, Chidoka expressed satisfaction with the service’s implementation of last year’s budget, despite that only N98. 863 million was released to the agency as at December 31.

He assured that the House would consider the agency’s provisions in this year’s budget and seek ways of ensuring its optimum performance.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, recently revealed that the Army would be raising up cattle ranches in such a manner that in almost all the divisions and brigades, cattle will be reared.

He said in keeping up with modern cattle rearing tradition, he sent some Army officers to Argentina to look at how cattle were reared there.
http://m.guardian.ng/news/fg-proposes-n70m-for-training-livestock-rearers-cattlemen/?F

Hmmm, they shuu train them o. Since they've been causing trouble "herdsman", there hasn't been any arrest. Now it's to train them. They need it.

My question is,
Why involve the Nigerian Army in the rearing of Cattle?
Let the Army focus on their primary assignment and continuous training.
There are enough herdsmen to benefit from these training instead.

Give them Western education and all this wahala go end

Paramilitary training for herdsmen?

WHR all dis money dey enter self

Reducing our men in uniform to herdsmen is not a way forward and doesn't show professionalism in our military.

All the people that will be chosen will be done base on principle of Federal Character

islamization on the move. this people are hell bent to islamize this country and it will not work.

Is it me or this is covert way to train ,arm and legitimize the dreaded Fulani militia .?

All for herdsmen?

Isoryt

I'm sure that many people will not understand this poorly written article.

Cows are having a great time under this dullard

Many countries around the world have national parks and game reserves for the conservation of animals and plants. Examples in Nigeria include the Yankari Game Reserve, the Obudu Cattle Ranch, the National Arboretum in Abuja, etc.

The problem is that many poachers would like to kill the animals in the reserves. For example, poachers would like to kill the elephants and sell their tusks to the Chinese. Loggers would also like to cut down the trees in the parks and reserves.

Therefore, the Nigerian National Parks Service (NPS) employs armed park rangers to guard the national parks. It is these park rangers that the conservator-general of the federation is referring to. He says that they requested that the Nigerian Army should train them, but the cost was too high, so they've found other ways to train them.

Now read the (badly written) article again.

http://nigeriaparkservice.org/

Buy why?

Military training for herdsmen this can only mean one thing

Fulani jihad loading

With whose money? What a useless government giving priority to cows rather than their hungry zombies

To be paid from the oil revenue of the newly discovered reserves in the north that is yet to be exploited or from the Niger Delta?


https://www.nairaland.com/3401934/nnpc-discovers-21-wells-full


https://www.nairaland.com/3521986/crude-oil-discovered-borno-state

I pity the people of Niger Delta who can't farm or rear animals on their land due to frequent oil spills.
They need to fight more seriously for resource control so that we can all develop better instead of being lazy.

uboma:
My question is,

Why involve the Nigerian Army in the rearing of Cattle?

Let the Army focus on their primary assignment and continuous training.

There are enough herdsmen to benefit from these training instead.

I talk am here say sum killer herdsmen be military men una tink say I dey joke..Dey have bin involved in cattle business ever since,now dey just wanna allocate money to dem and tank dem for a job well done.

SalamRushdie:
Paramilitary training for herdsmen?

If only the masses can get half the attention this man gives to the Fulani owned cows, Nigerians would have loved him. Smh

Army should train herds men

Navy should train fishermen.

Police should train megidas and gate men,


Wonders shall never end.

What a country! Paramilitary training for herdsmen? Is the training meant to keep them in check or prepare them for war?

Why not educate them rather. Do they need combat training to rare cows, goats or turkeys?

Yesterday it was interception of a truck load of guns, who knows what group it was meant for, today it is paramilitary training for already notorious herdsmen.

Tomorrow maybe it will be arming the herdsmen against rustlers and wild animals.

What a country!

What rubbish
Was money also allocated for training of all market women and SME owners?

Rearing of animals is a profit making business. Tax payers fundss shouldn't be used in any capacity, except as a loan

naptu2:
Many countries around the world have national parks and game reserves for the conservation of animals and plants. Examples in Nigeria include the Yankari Game Reserve, the Obudu Cattle Ranch, the National Arboretum in Abuja, etc.

The problem is that many poachers would like to kill the animals in the reserves. For example, poachers would like to kill the elephants and sell their tusks to the Chinese. Loggers would also like to cut down the trees in the parks and reserves.

Therefore, the Nigerian National Parks Service (NPS) employs armed park rangers to guard the national parks. It is these park rangers that the conservator-general of the federation is referring to. He says that they requested that the Nigerian Army should train them, but the cost was too high, so they've found other ways to train them.

Now read the (badly written) article again.

http://nigeriaparkservice.org/

Park services for domestic animals? Who do you think you Fulani people are fooling ...This is an attempt to legitimize and arm the Fulani militia so they can openly defend grazing routes they have siezed...nonsense

SalamRushdie:


Park services for domestic animals? Who do you think you Fulani people are fooling ...This is an attempt to legitimize and arm the Fulani militia so they can openly defend grazing routes they have siezed...nonsense

1) I'm not fulani.

2) What kind of animals are at the Obudu Cattle Ranch?

3) Where is the Obudu Cattle Ranch?

Free N70m for Audu Ogbeh to thief! Naija, I hail o!