haba see wahala oo.. When did RUGA become FG business? Is ranching now an FG affair? Nawaooo this lopsided govt sef

2 3 billion budgeted for the Fulani infiltration

doyinbaby:
when yaradua died... south west protested that Jonathan must be made president just as the consistution said ....he was made president he completed yaradua tenure .....he contested again we voted for Him. But he showed that he never valued us....he never regarded the southwest..... Jonathan marginalised the southwest....he was going every where pleasing the northerners ....he then said the Igbo were his brothers...... Jonathan marginalised the Yoruba despite how we supported him....... Yoruba never hated Jonathan ....we loved him but Jonathan never valued nor regarded us....he only ran to Southwest when the 2015 election was close...

Marginalised is the reason you go loose your father land and make slave in your father land .you jump into fire because you are hungry !

My brother it is madness

Thought they have suspended this shit. Bleep!

bitcoinmama:
Is this really Nigeria's problem?

It is a very big problem, my sister. Please go read the history of the fulanis in Northern Nigeria.

What a nonentity happening in our dear country
Can this be as a result electing a weak leaders who can easily be tossed left or right. What a gathering of calumnity against the other sections of the country.

So mr ita enang you think everything is about money my brother forget it. or because your name na enang which mean cow i see.

How and why will u bring a colonial initiative of 1956 to a republic of 2019. Are we normal in this country ?

Ita Enang is the federal government puppet who is obligated to lure southern governors to agree to implement the RUGA federal government initiative and be entitled for the jackpot...!

Please the north west regions should plan to revamp their redundant irrigation system by reconstructing their dilapitated dams to best capacity there to nurture more grazing pastures there and use the money for it's actualization.

On a lighter mood, when has cattle ranching and settlement been a federal project?

Marginalization in the highest order

RUGA initiative scheme is a big time misplace priority that failed even before it was mentioned.

I don't want to hear that RUGA again please before i go swear for person o!

If the states must provide land for ruga, then it must be a law that the communities must be in charge of the settlements areas NOT the fulanies. The states can buy their cows and rear,process and manage the cattles by themselves. The fulanies herbsmen have to go to their verious states and manage their ruga.

RUGA is a scam

Ruga gulps 2.2billion naira and water sanitation gulps only 300 million naira. Government priorities ���

Why so much interest on a particular tribe in Nigeria?
Does this have any economic impact to this nation?
More than 3x in a year, NYSC churn out ex-corp members and the population of job demand is tripling more than the available jobs. Neither is there a structure on ground to prepare them to be entrepreneurs nor will they financially empower them?
Do u know how many small cottage industries that set amount above can build?
Do you know how many African nations that that set amount is their country's yearly budget?
In another life......... Nigeria hmmmmm

jamace:
It is a very big problem, my sister. Please go read the history of the fulanis in Northern Nigeria.

Ruga should be managed by state governmets as a means of internal generating revenue or by the host communities NOT by the fulanies.

If the fulanies wishes to do cattle business in any state ruga,they should operate UNDER the lay down rules leadership of the host communities or the state government and vice versa.

apesinola001:

24hrs light.

As long as the citizens are afraid to challenge this govt. I mean, citizens of Southern region playing safe and staying on the fence, this Fulani project will continue to have its way.
The South Easterners have said they don't have land for this Fulani project. Our governors should stop attending meetings on Rugs issue with FG. They should be ready to contend with us. South East governor should be careful not to change the earlier stand of the zone. They cannot contain the aftermath of such move.

Elchicolo:
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang at the weekend called on states in the southern part of the country to support the implementation of the proposed RUGA cattle settlement programme by making land available.

According to him, N2.258 billion was provided for its implementation in the 2019 budget.

He spoke in Abuja while hosting students of Law School Abuja from Akwa Ibom State.

He explained the word – RUGA is not derived from Hausa or Fulani, but an acronym for Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) initiated in 1956 during the colonial era.

He also assured it was not intended to Islamise, Fulanise or colonise anybody.

He said that the budgetary provision is in volume 1 under the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural development item number ERGP 5208 where the sum of N2.258bn was provided and budgeted for the grazing programme.

He said that National Assembly members are not against the Ruga programme because they are aware of it and has been approving funds for its implementation.

Besides the over N2 billion appropriated for the Ruga, he said that there were also budgeted sum of N300 million for water sanitation, N400 million development for sweet potatoes, 350 million for ginger development amongst several other provisions.

The RUGA policy, he said, is just one component of the budget under the ministry of agriculture.

He added that the objective of the budget for RUGA is to promote cattle breeding and meat production.

The RUGA programme, he said,is an integrated farm system which has schools, good road, tractors and mechanisatiom, agricultural integration with a provision for primary healthcare, vetinery, schools.

Apart from the budgeted sum for RUGA in the 2019 budget, there is another sum provided for the emergency Ruga implementation programme approved in May by the National Economic Council for states that will make land available.

Enang said that since 1999 he has been hosting students of Law School from Akwa Ibom State but this was specifically to enlighten them on the objective of RUGA programme against the ongoing misconceptions.

He asked the law students one after the other what they know about RUGA and each and everyone gave his view on the issue.

Some said they have not known much about the real issue because government was yet to enlighten them on it.

He went on: “RUGA is not a plan to seize land from people neither and it’s not meant to fulanize or colonize anybody.

”The Programme is meant to address the issue of cattle roaming and destruction of farmland which would put an end to the herders/farmers crisis, ” Enang explained.

According to him, people in the south have farm settlements and plantations that can be equated to Ruga.

”The idea of RUGA graduated in 1978 into the Land Use Act which states that a portion of land has to be reserved for grazing to avoid the destruction of farm produce by cattle.

”Over time cattle roamed and destroyed farms hence the introduction of the policy to address the issue, ” he said

He noted that in places like the north, earth dams were constructed to cater for cattle.

He expressed shocks over the inability of some states governors to understand the policy.

One of the first RUGA programmes, he said, is Obudu Cattle Ranch and the Yankari Games Reserve.

Stressing that the Federal Government is not trying to takeover anybody’s land for Ruga , he said that land under the land use act is in the hands of state government.

He faulted the claims by some governors that it was meant to Fulanize people.

He said that the emergency RUGA programme did not involve any state in the South East, South West and the South South because the areas that had the problems were about 10 states mainly North Central, and few states in North West and North East.

Responding to questions from the law students he said in most places wealth is measured by the number of cattle one has.

Senator Enang said that people in the southern part of the country preferred the local cow because it’s more nutritious than the ones brought from the north.

He urged the states in the south to open up their lands for RUGA.

He said those in the habit of abusing their leaders are not well informed on the policy adding that their representatives in the national assembly unanimously passed the budget for RUGA and the ministers from all the states of the federation also approved the RUGA at NEC.

He said that the president is very sensitive to the plight of Nigerian hence the call for the suspension of the RUGA policy.

He also appealed to all Nigerians to stop politicizing the implementation of the ruga policy.

He said that if lawyers understand, the world will understand.

The students appreciated the senator appealing to government to increase its public enlightenment programme to enable the citizens understand better its policies and programmes to avoid rancor.

https://thenationonlineng.net/ruga-to-gulp-n2-2bn-in-2019-enang/

The 2 billion naira for Ruga was smuggled into the 2019 budget. We are watching you people.

mrvitalis:
Fulanis are not native to the north central

North west have lots of dams and niger state have lots of unused land

Use that money to build more dams in the north west for irigate the lands for grass to grow

The RUGA similar projects that was done before can we have a look how it done out ? Kaduna own , jos also

Good idea.

doyinbaby:
when yaradua died... south west protested that Jonathan must be made president just as the consistution said ....he was made president he completed yaradua tenure .....he contested again we voted for Him. But he showed that he never valued us....he never regarded the southwest..... Jonathan marginalised the southwest....he was going every where pleasing the northerners ....he then said the Igbo were his brothers...... Jonathan marginalised the Yoruba despite how we supported him....... Yoruba never hated Jonathan ....we loved him but Jonathan never valued nor regarded us....he only ran to Southwest when the 2015 election was close...

Pls how did Jonathan "marginalise" yorubas?

doyinbaby:
when yaradua died... south west protested that Jonathan must be made president just as the consistution said ....he was made president he completed yaradua tenure .....he contested again we voted for Him. But he showed that he never valued us....he never regarded the southwest..... Jonathan marginalised the southwest....he was going every where pleasing the northerners ....he then said the Igbo were his brothers...... Jonathan marginalised the Yoruba despite how we supported him....... Yoruba never hated Jonathan ....we loved him but Jonathan never valued nor regarded us....he only ran to Southwest when the 2015 election was close...

They will surely Ruga you with Love and occupy your father land in repayment of your solidarity. Jonathan is far better than the man in Aso rock now. Time will teach you a bitter lesson.

What you blow into a trumpet is what it sounds out. That's another great useful idiot.

DeOTR:
So far it's in the core North, we don't really care.

How about the money being spent on it?

apesinola001:

Visa again, again and again . With Visa you've achieved almost everything.

Can the South does the same thing up to the North? Two states in the North is equivalent to the whole South. Why the Southern leaders are the most foolish leaders in this wide world . For not speaking up(politics )

The northern parts of Nigeria have a bigger land area. I will suggest sambisia forest be used for this ruga settlement