The Southern, Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) yesterday rejected the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) of the Federal Government, maintaining that the policy makes no economic sense for the country.

The body queried the rationale behind the move by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration “to use the collective resources of Nigerians to convert herdsmen, majority of whom are non-Nigerians, from nomadic to sedentary lifestyles while doing their private business that has nothing to do with the rest of us beyond being their market. It is akin to government making budgetary allocations to Coca Cola to produce drinks to sell to Nigerians.”

Besides, the leaders said there were other fundamental problems inherent in the programme.

In a statement yesterday after a meeting in Abuja signed by its spokespersons, Yinka Odumakin (South West), Professor Chigozie Ogbu (South East), Bassey Henshaw (South-South), and Dr. Isuwa Dogo (Middle Belt), the group deplored the seeming inability of government to “mobilise national consensus to confront the monumental tragedies bedeviling the country.”

The leaders claimed that the Buhari administration had instead been “busied itself with policies that are divisive and smack of domination and conquest of sections of the country by a section.”

The forum noted that the NLTP “will only escalate the clashes between the indigenous communities and cattle settlers as experiences in Southern and Middle Belt areas of Nigeria have shown that the Fulani imports do not assimilate into the ways of lives of Nigerians in those parts of the country where they reside.”

The group went on: “They live apart from the locals and set up communities with alien culture that disrupts the cultural flow of the indigenes.

“The subterfuge of the whole deal is exposed in that while government officials deceive Nigerians that the plan will stop open grazing for ranching, option 1 in it provides for the establishment of corridors for migrant cattle with feeding and watering points along the routes. This is as stark as the lie that ‘livestock’ include other sources of meat. The entire plan is about cattle and herdsmen.”

The SMBLF said it does not accept the policy and asked the Federal Government to allow those who are in cattle business to establish ranches on their own under the guidelines and laws of the host state.

The group also observed that the Waterways Bill was “another conquest agenda in sync with the NLTP.”

It considered vexatious the piece of legislation sponsored by the President and entitled, “A Bill for An Act to Establish a Regulatory Framework for the Water Resources Sector in Nigeria, Provide for the Equitable and Sustainable Redevelopment, Management, Use and Conservation of Nigeria’s Surface Water and Groundwater Resources and for Related Matter.”

The leaders alleged that “the Waterways Bill is another land-grabbing move like RUGA by ethnic supremacists who are working against the unity of the country. Major rivers in Nigeria can be made available, by federal law if the bill is passed, to Fulani pastoralists and there is nothing the indigenous people within such vicinities can do about it.”

They further claimed: “The police and the security agencies will be handy to enforce it and it will be another White farmers versus the African landowners scenario in South Africa during the Apartheid season.”

https://m.guardian.ng/news/nigeria/national/southern-middle-belt-leaders-reject-livestock-policy-waterways-bill/

buhari n his cabals are demented demons n vampires ..

Rekhina pls come here and tell us how Islam Yoruba welcomes ruga

There are millions of out of school Hausa kids, begging for means of livelihoods in the north( neighbours/friends). There is no plan for them, but they are importing foreigners and planning big for them all in the name of race.

ewigmee:
There are millions of out of school Hausa kids, begging for means of livelihoods in the north( neighbours/friends). There is no plan for them, but they are importing foreigners and planning big for them all in the name of race.

.. Very shameful my dear,very shameful.

ewigmee:
There are millions of out of school Hausa kids, begging for means of livelihoods in the north( neighbours/friends). There is no plan for them, but they are importing foreigners and planning big for them all in the name of race.

Buhari is a bloody tribalist, hell bent in carrying out the script written by his Arab kinsmen .

This is an agenda that will fail, no matter what !

God is not unjust, Buhari cannot be using our collective. wealth to settle a tribe and foreigners in the name of Islamic-Arab expansionism while people are dying of hunger and be thinking he will succeed.
He will not, in fact his end will be worst than Abacha's.

The voice of men is the voice of God !!!

Buhari will fail !!!


Has anyone noticed how he gets embarrassed whenever he leaves the shore of this country ?

Nonsense APC policies


Cc lzaa gmbuharii afamed sarrki simplyleo

It is akin to government making budgetary allocations to Coca Cola to produce drinks to sell to Nigerians.”

Case closed
f*uck ruga and if you down with ruga, f*uck you too!

All these obnoxious bills aimed at siphoning the resources of the south is a subtle way of the fulanization policy of this administration.

Almajiri schools in the north built by GEJ how many are still in existence? They won't allow their foot soldiers to be educated and have a change of life. All they no is RUGA.

Meanwhile today is my birthday. I pray not to spend my another birthday in this nation, this is my sincere heart desire.

Nigeria nation kills potentials.

Okay

ghen ghen, it's bout to go down


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Very good

Yam never reach dem sides.

Doesn't change anything.

post=82615535:
maintaining that the policy makes no economic sense for the countr

Wailer

Fulani population in the whole of Africa is possibly less than 20 million.

They are not all herdsmen as people usually assume. You have the nomadic fulani, the semi-nomadic and the town fulanis. The town fulanis have settled and are no more nomadic. They are very strategic and always fight for the interests of their nomadic brothers. That fight has taken them into the politics of governance and of money where they try to have strategic influence. While other tribes seek relevance in education and trade (which are the main targets of the south) the town fulanis take strategic place in the security segment and in the dominant sectors of the economy.

Nigerians should not frown at efforts to make the fulani herdsmen to become sedentary and possibly become semi-nomadic or even settle as town fulanis. The argument that fulanis will always be nomadic is faulted by the fact that many of them are no longer nomadic. The herdsmen can settle and Nigerians should support efforts to make that happen.

What should not be supported is throwing the borders open for all herdsmen.

Actually, there are very rich fulanis, so rich that they can set up their own development fund, without waiting for funding by government. They can use their own funds to settle herdsmen where they are and let them start to enjoy the benefit of development and education like their counterparts in town. A plan by fulanis for the fulanis may be easier to sell to the herdsmen nomadic fulanis.

Government is needed in the aspects of policy and education (not necessarily some funding that may be hijacked by the wrong people) and this is what the government plan should focus on.

FarahAideed:
Wailer

You have always been ignore from day one,
all your numerous mentions have been ignored.
We refused to join issue with you.
Replying you in like terms will be a waste of space.
TTTH henceforth!

FarahAideed:
Poor failure like U ignore me ? :DKeep fooling yourself, I never even bother reading you comments ever talkless of quoting you .. This is a one off so don't feel cool.. Oya ignore yourself IJN

Hehehe .
Look at a Bigtime failure along with his Atiku calling Baba's child a failure!
After defeating you and your Atiku 2 different times?
Delusional tin!
You've wailed for 4 years, Keep wailing for the next 4 years,
Failure get mouth to still dey talk,
after we take him mouth clean and wash ground FeBuhari 23rd 2019.
Shame.
Specialty in failure dem dem!

RUGA in another form

Buhari wants to handover ownership of water sources to the Fulanis which master stroke in finishing off other tribes in Nigeria because in Nature who ever controls access to water sources wins survival race

If only the aforementioned geographical zones had come together politically and reason together, the disastrous plague hoisted on Nigeria in Aso rock would never have happened and northern hegemony will just be what it ought to be a mirage.

post=82615535:

NO LONG THING!

Are you also against your Darling amiable president? I thought he is the best thing after slice bread.

post=82615677:

You have always been ignore from day one,
and we refused to join issue with you.
Replying you in like terms will be a waste of space.
TTTH henceforth!

Poor failure like U ignore me ? :DKeep fooling yourself, I never even bother reading you comments ever talkless of quoting you .. This is a one off so don't feel cool.. Oya ignore yourself IJN

immhotep:
Nonsense APC policies


Cc lzaa gmbuharii afamed sarrki simplyleo

Simplyleo and gwarotango wee not like this

ewigmee:
There are millions of out of school Hausa kids, begging for means of livelihoods in the north( neighbours/friends). There is no plan for them, but they are importing foreigners and planning big for them all in the name of race.

what is ur own there northerners the hausas are not complaining why are you complaining or trying to lend your voice who cares if they join bokoharam

fulanis are dear to them cos they have culture n religion in common they can go to hell for all I care

We want farmer - herdsmen clashes stopped but every solution we rubbish !

Samunique:
Buhari is a bloody tribalist, hell bent in carrying out the script written by his Arab kinsmen .

This is an agenda that will fail, no matter what !

God is not unjust, Buhari cannot be using our collective. wealth to settle a tribe and foreigners in the name of Islamic-Arab expansionism while people are dying of hunger and be thinking he will succeed.
He will not, in fact his end will be worst than Abacha's.

The voice of men is the voice of God !!!

Buhari will fail !!!


Has anyone noticed how he gets embarrassed whenever he leaves the shore of this country ?

The fact that osibanjo is the one championing this thing leave me speechless.

Has anyone actually taken out time to study the documents governing the Livestock and inland waterway policies or are we just following the political bandwagon?

Politics the world over has become so toxic these days that it's so difficult to separate the truth from sensational crap.

Samunique:
Buhari is a bloody tribalist, hell bent in carrying out the script written by his Arab kinsmen .

This is an agenda that will fail, no matter what !

God is not unjust, Buhari cannot be using our collective. wealth to settle a tribe and foreigners in the name of Islamic-Arab expansionism while people are dying of hunger and be thinking he will succeed.
He will not, in fact his end will be worst than Abacha's.

The voice of men is the voice of God !!!

Buhari will fail !!!


Has anyone noticed how he gets embarrassed whenever he leaves the shore of this country ?

Na so we see am o