Ebonyi state government, yesterday told Federal government that the State has no land for cattle ranching.

The federal government had some days ago listed Ebonyi as among the ten states that have provided land for cattle ranch.

But addressing journalists after the state Executive Council meeting, the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Barrister Ikechukwu Nwobo told the federal government that there was no vacant land for cattle ranch in the state.

Nwobo said “the state executive council frowned at the news making rounding that the State has directed or provided for a cattle ranche in Ebonyi State.

The highest organ of Ebonyi state is the state executive council and the state security council and any decision taken by this council is the last bus stop for the people and government of Ebonyi state. Whether the federal government consulted us, we are not aware of that. The State Executive council has decided and made sure that there is no land for ranching in Ebonyi State.

“We never provided land for ranching in Ebonyi State and it is still our position and that those land they said is for ranching is for those Northern state that have always been doing ranching which have been gazzeted before now.

“We have no idea that we were included in the ranching, we were not gazzeted. There is no land for any ranching in Ebonyin state and we are not aware that we are among those mentioned as ranching states.

“The Ebonyi State through the executive council wishes to state that the government has not provided or released any land for ranching, it has no plan to do that. The ranching programme being done by the federal government does not include Ebonyi State and it has been redirected to those states in the North where the farmlands have been gazetted and have ranching ground which they will now revitalized”.


Cc myndd44
Cc lalasticlala
Cc Seun
http://thenationonlineng.net/ebonyi-to-fg-we-have-no-land-for-cattle-ranching/

They should take their satanic ranches to Falgore forest

kernel507:
I'm happy to hear this. Let the Fulanis, like every other Nigerian, buy land and ranch there cattle there.

And so? What is wrong with this people, they will just be looking for trouble.
Is anything wrong if donated land for business?
Cow rearing is business,
Whether by government or individual .

Let every state give out a piece of land to enable your people to eat cheaper meat,
Or boycott cow meat if you love your people, because everybody in Nigeria cannot be going to one location in Nigeria.

SarkinYarki:
They should take their satanic ranches to Falgore forest

obailala:
Ah ah! Na by force to give land? What is wrong with you? Must you get everything for free or by force?... There are at least 20 states in the federation that don't mind having those ranches, why cant the ranches be taken to those states which admire the concept?

cow should not be moving from state to state or any state that refuses to sell land for cow rearing shouldn't eat cow meat.

kudos to Ebonyians

Better o! Make e no come be like say una don craze finish for dia

nwakibie3:
Ebonyi state government, yesterday told Federal government that the State has no land for cattle ranching.

The federal government had some days ago listed Ebonyi as among the ten states that have provided land for cattle ranch.

But addressing journalists after the state Executive Council meeting, the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Barrister Ikechukwu Nwobo told the federal government that there was no vacant land for cattle ranch in the state.

Nwobo said “the state executive council frowned at the news making rounding that the State has directed or provided for a cattle ranche in Ebonyi State.

The highest organ of Ebonyi state is the state executive council and the state security council and any decision taken by this council is the last bus stop for the people and government of Ebonyi state. Whether the federal government consulted us, we are not aware of that. The State Executive council has decided and made sure that there is no land for ranching in Ebonyi State.

“We never provided land for ranching in Ebonyi State and it is still our position and that those land they said is for ranching is for those Northern state that have always been doing ranching which have been gazzeted before now.

“We have no idea that we were included in the ranching, we were not gazzeted. There is no land for any ranching in Ebonyin state and we are not aware that we are among those mentioned as ranching states.

“The Ebonyi State through the executive council wishes to state that the government has not provided or released any land for ranching, it has no plan to do that. The ranching programme being done by the federal government does not include Ebonyi State and it has been redirected to those states in the North where the farmlands have been gazetted and have ranching ground which they will now revitalized”.


Cc myndd44
Cc lalasticlala
Cc Seun
http://thenationonlineng.net/ebonyi-to-fg-we-have-no-land-for-cattle-ranching/

The mods have no plan to move it to front page.


Mine I posted by 6:50am had the monikers of the moderators vanished alongside the post that called their attention to move it to front page



See the link below


https://www.nairaland.com/4575893/ebonyi-govt-rejects-fgs-proposed

I'm happy to hear this. Let the Fulanis, like every other Nigerian, buy land and ranch there cattle there.

That's a people who have Rights and Cultures to protect and will not want Bokoharam and Fulani Herdsmen to turn Eboyin State into Buhari Emirate.

buhariguy:
And so? What is wrong with this people, they will just be looking for trouble.
Is anything wrong if donated land for business?
Cow rearing is business,
Whether by government or individual .

Let every state give out a piece of land to enable your people to eat cheaper meat,
Or boycott cow meat if you love your people, because everybody in Nigeria cannot be going to one location in Nigeria.

Ah ah! Na by force to give land? What is wrong with you? Must you get everything for free or by force?... There are at least 20 states in the federation that don't mind having those ranches, why cant the ranches be taken to those states which admire the concept?

buhariguy:
And so? What is wrong with this people, they will just be looking for trouble.
Is anything wrong if donated land for business?
Cow rearing is business,
Whether by government or individual .

Let every state give out a piece of land to enable your people to eat cheaper meat,
Or boycott cow meat if you love your people, because everybody in Nigeria cannot be going to one location in Nigeria.
cow should not be moving from state to state or any state that refuses to sell land for cow rearing shouldn't eat cow meat.

They were given land enough to mob 70% of them in Kogi and Kaduna, what else do they want down South?

Just before swallowing this new pill, let us shine our eyes:

CHANGE IN NOMENCLATURE, SAME AMBIGUOUS POLICY

By

Gurumwal George Longjan

The widely rejected proposed National Grazing Ranch/Reserve/Colony Policy has just had a name change to:

“The National Livestock Transformation Plan”.

Glancing through the “Transformation Plan”, these are the ten pilot states to “benefit” from the policy:

Adamawa, Benue, Ebonyi, Edo, Kaduna, Nassarawa, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara.

94 locations in these states have been “donated” and have subsequently been earmarked for the Ranches/Reserves/Colonies.

Who did the donating?
Were the indigenous people consulted?
Where are the 94 donated lands located?

These basic queries have not been answered since the initial Grazing debate started, up till now that this new “Transformation Plan” is being peddled.

Page 23 of the Transformation Plan partly answered the first of the three questions. It was stated that “Governors and Private Entities” have donated lands for the “Pilot Ranches”. But To the best of my knowledge, there is no vacant land in these states, all lands have owners. So did these owners, from the goodness of their hearts, give their scarce land resources to the State Government for utilisation for the The Plan?

If it was the various State Government’s lands, did the various Houses of Assembly approve such a ceding of State Land to the Federal Government, even if it’s temporary?

Confusingly, it states on Page 27 that:

“Pastoralists to be registered and recognised as cooperatives for the ranching scheme”

and then in the very next paragraph:

“State Governments to grant lands to (these) cooperatives on a leasehold basis”

The mere fact that this paragraph categorically states that Pastoralists will be the ones to form the cooperatives and those cooperatives will be “given the lands” calls for deep concern.

Now we don’t even know who has rights to the lands to do as they please during the implementation of The Plan. Is it the Federal Government? The State Government? The original owners of the land? The Pastoralists?

Furthermore it states that there shall be clusters of these “ranches” within the “donated gazetted grazing reserves”. From my limited knowledge, this group of “clusters” more or less describes a “Grazing Colony”.

The fact that they are being “gazetted” means that the Federal Government will most likely have the rights to the lands, and do whatever they please with it, even if it runs contrary to the interests of the indigenous neighbours. We have not finished recovering from the “Grazing Routes” that were established by Government and “gazetted” decades ago.

Page 12 and 13 of The Transformation Plan says it is to be built on six key pillars. Of interest is the fourth pillar, the “Humanitarian Relief Pillar” which includes “rebuilding and reconstructing of WORSHIP PLACES”.

I’m wondering what an economic/transformation plan or an agricultural project has to do with “worship places”. I guess the interpretation of “worship places” and which religion(s) would benefit is anyone’s guess.

Also of interest is that over 10 years, the Project will gulp more than N179 billion while the first 3 years of the pilot phase will consume N70 billion.

For the Federal Government to be eager and willing to invest so much money in a controversially unpopular project that has been roundly rejected, that has changed names multiple times and involves an activity that is not generally practised by the indigenous people of the selected states, calls for deep thought.

It is concerning that a farming activity like grazing cattle, that involves a significantly lower percentage of the population in the aforementioned area, will consume almost the whole totality of the monumental funds that have been earmarked for future farming related activities and projects in the target areas.

Farming of Potatoes, Yams, Cassava, Millet, Rice, Carrots, Cabbages, Beans, Mai Atili (Olives), Ridi (Beniseed), Cashew, Oranges, Mangoes etc is the predominant agricultural activity in these regions.

This is where I would have thought the Federal Government would invest N179 billion. Long term investments to build processing plants, develop supply chain routes, upgrade the local airports to international Cargo Terminals and provide other technological amenities to improve crop production to meet the local demand and eventual export to countries that are begging for these agricultural resources.

All I would say is that let every one keep their eyes wide open. With current happenings, we definitely can not afford to be complacent.

Beneath every questionable and ambiguous policy, there is an underlying agenda. And in more cases than none, the agenda is nefarious.

buhariguy:
And so? What is wrong with this people, they will just be looking for trouble.
Is anything wrong if donated land for business?
Cow rearing is business,
Whether by government or individual .

Let every state give out a piece of land to enable your people to eat cheaper meat,
Or boycott cow meat if you love your people, because everybody in Nigeria cannot be going to one location in Nigeria.
cow should not be moving from state to state or any state that refuses to sell land for cow rearing shouldn't eat cow meat.

Okay sir we will learn how not to eat cow meat again

kernel507:



They were given land enough to mob 70% of them in Kogi and Kaduna, what else do they want down South?

don't you understand English,

I said, we Southerners shouldn't eat cow meat since we don't want it in our land because is wrong to be moving cow from north to south.
Let only north eat their cow, and let us eat our goods here, which is the end of our division.

Buhari said Boko Haram no longer holds any territory in the country more ...


Let the herdsmen make use of the sambisa forest to grave their cattle....

No state in the south will give out their land for cow colonization

buhariguy:
don't you understand English,

I said, we Southerners shouldn't eat cow meat since we don't want it in our land because is wrong to be moving cow from north to south.
Let only north eat their cow, and let us eat our goods here, which is the end of our division.

U Fuxkin impostor, u re naturally Giftyed with stewpidity, We can Rear Cow meats here down south