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WITH THE INCREASED TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN NIGERIA, FULANI HERDSMEN BY THEIR TRESPASS, THEFT, RAPE, AND SLAUGHTER OF FARMERS SHOW THAT THEY ARE AGAINST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THIS LAND. IT IS HIGHLY WORRYING TOO THAT FULANI HERDSMAN CAN BE A GOOD DISGUISE FOR TERRORISTS. “RUGA” UNDER ANY NAME MUST BE RESISTED AS IT IS A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER THAT WILL BE PUT THERE FOR OUR CHILDREN TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.

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NATIONAL LIVESTOCK PLAN IS RUGA IN DISGUISE, NIGERIANS WARN
By Femi Ibirogba, Head, Agro-Economy Desk
The Guardian Nigeria
16 September 2019

Excerpts from the article:

• As FG inaugurates first phase

Nigerians have knocked the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government for re-introducing the infamous RUGA scheme through the back door in the name of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP).This came as the government officially inaugurated the programme in Adamawa State. It will be recalled that Professor Yemi Osinbajo, representing the president, inaugurated the NLTP at the Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Tuesday, September 11, 2019.

The vice-president said the plan was designed to run from 2019-2028 as part of the government’s efforts in collaboration with states under the National Economic Council (NEC).The plan was to be implemented in seven pilot states of Adamawa, Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara, Professor Osinbajo explained.

Meanwhile, on August 16, stakeholders in Benue State, including the traditional institution, the church, socio-cultural organisations, the academia and civil society, rejected the NLTP during an interface with a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.The Tor Lobi, Chief Moses Anagende and Tor Kwande, Chief Ambrose Iyortyer, speaking for traditional rulers, said the best thing for the government was to rebuild homes, schools and churches that were destroyed by herders and make efforts to heal the highly traumatised and displaced people.

The thrust of their argument was that the NLTP document only talks about cattle and no other category of livestock, saying it was a way to re-introduce RUGA using another name. A lecturer at the Benue State University, Professor Amstrong Adejo was also said to have argued that as captured, livestock was holistic but the conclusion was particular about cattle….

The livestock policy also says, “The overall responsibility for the co-ordination of the NLTP will be carried out at the Federal level by the NEC NLTP Steering Committee through the Programme Coordination Secretariat (PCS) to be domiciled in the Office of the Vice President,” accounting for the inauguration by Vice-President Osinbajo recently, where he declared that, “I wish to emphasise that this is not RUGA. Because the idea of RUGA settlements launched by the Ministry of Agriculture created a problem when it was perceived as a plan to seize lands to create settlements for herders.”

But, from the components of the policy documents, it is very difficult to convince Nigerians that the livestock policy is not exclusively for herdsmen. It appears, from the spirit and letter of the document, a reformed RUGA agenda.Commenting, Dr Chijioke Uwasomba, a senior lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, said, “The impression being created is that perhaps, given the agitated responses of Nigerians, especially the Southeast, South-south, Southwest and the North Central, this may be a backhand way of implementing RUGA”….

….Arguments against the RUGA scheme and its offshoots have been that public resources are being allocated to the development of private cattle breeding and rearing businesses as a reward for attacks on farmers and killing innocent rural dwellers by herdsmen, while the affected farmers and villages are left to wallow in sorrow (over the loss of their loved ones), hunger and poverty. The proponents of RUGA or cattle colony have always argued that the government does support other categories of farmers, but had not supported herdsmen for once.

The herdsmen, however have been destroying farmers’ crops for years with impunity. Not only that, other categories of farmers have always been either given subsidised inputs or loans. They had never been given other people’s land, free building and social facilities by the Federal Government, as espoused in the NLTP and the RUGA scheme. Farm settlements of the old regional governments were built on community’s land though; the same community people were the beneficiaries of the settlements, not other people. The name National Livestock Transformation Plan suggests a broader and a more inclusive coverage, but its policy statement and implementation components actually point to one direction: a RUGA project in another form.


SOURCE:
https://guardian.ng/features/agro-care/national-livestock-plan-is-ruga-in-disguise-nigerians-warn/



SHINE YOUR EYES! LET US NOT FORGET LADUGA CATTLE COLONY THAT HAS NOW OVERSPREAD AND BECOME A FULANI ENCLAVE (Google for more, and to see what Hon Jonathan Asake of Southern Kaduna has exposed)

meavox:
WITH THE INCREASED TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN NIGERIA, FULANI HERDSMEN BY THEIR TRESPASS, THEFT, RAPE, AND SLAUGHTER OF FARMERS SHOW THAT THEY ARE AGAINST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THIS LAND. IT IS HIGHLY WORRYING TOO THAT FULANI HERDSMAN CAN BE A GOOD DISGUISE FOR TERRORISTS. “RUGA” UNDER ANY NAME MUST BE RESISTED AS IT IS A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER THAT WILL BE PUT THERE FOR OUR CHILDREN TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.

===============================================================

NATIONAL LIVESTOCK PLAN IS RUGA IN DISGUISE, NIGERIANS WARN
By Femi Ibirogba, Head, Agro-Economy Desk
The Guardian Nigeria
16 September 2019

Excerpts from the article:

• As FG inaugurates first phase

Nigerians have knocked the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government for re-introducing the infamous RUGA scheme through the back door in the name of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP).This came as the government officially inaugurated the programme in Adamawa State. It will be recalled that Professor Yemi Osinbajo, representing the president, inaugurated the NLTP at the Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Tuesday, September 11, 2019.

The vice-president said the plan was designed to run from 2019-2028 as part of the government’s efforts in collaboration with states under the National Economic Council (NEC).The plan was to be implemented in seven pilot states of Adamawa, Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara, Professor Osinbajo explained.

Meanwhile, on August 16, stakeholders in Benue State, including the traditional institution, the church, socio-cultural organisations, the academia and civil society, rejected the NLTP during an interface with a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.The Tor Lobi, Chief Moses Anagende and Tor Kwande, Chief Ambrose Iyortyer, speaking for traditional rulers, said the best thing for the government was to rebuild homes, schools and churches that were destroyed by herders and make efforts to heal the highly traumatised and displaced people.

The thrust of their argument was that the NLTP document only talks about cattle and no other category of livestock, saying it was a way to re-introduce RUGA using another name. A lecturer at the Benue State University, Professor Amstrong Adejo was also said to have argued that as captured, livestock was holistic but the conclusion was particular about cattle….

The livestock policy also says, “The overall responsibility for the co-ordination of the NLTP will be carried out at the Federal level by the NEC NLTP Steering Committee through the Programme Coordination Secretariat (PCS) to be domiciled in the Office of the Vice President,” accounting for the inauguration by Vice-President Osinbajo recently, where he declared that, “I wish to emphasise that this is not RUGA. Because the idea of RUGA settlements launched by the Ministry of Agriculture created a problem when it was perceived as a plan to seize lands to create settlements for herders.”

But, from the components of the policy documents, it is very difficult to convince Nigerians that the livestock policy is not exclusively for herdsmen. It appears, from the spirit and letter of the document, a reformed RUGA agenda.Commenting, Dr Chijioke Uwasomba, a senior lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, said, “The impression being created is that perhaps, given the agitated responses of Nigerians, especially the Southeast, South-south, Southwest and the North Central, this may be a backhand way of implementing RUGA”….

….Arguments against the RUGA scheme and its offshoots have been that public resources are being allocated to the development of private cattle breeding and rearing businesses as a reward for attacks on farmers and killing innocent rural dwellers by herdsmen, while the affected farmers and villages are left to wallow in sorrow (over the loss of their loved ones), hunger and poverty. The proponents of RUGA or cattle colony have always argued that the government does support other categories of farmers, but had not supported herdsmen for once.

The herdsmen, however have been destroying farmers’ crops for years with impunity. Not only that, other categories of farmers have always been either given subsidised inputs or loans. They had never been given other people’s land, free building and social facilities by the Federal Government, as espoused in the NLTP and the RUGA scheme. Farm settlements of the old regional governments were built on community’s land though; the same community people were the beneficiaries of the settlements, not other people. The name National Livestock Transformation Plan suggests a broader and a more inclusive coverage, but its policy statement and implementation components actually point to one direction: a RUGA project in another form.


SOURCE:
https://guardian.ng/features/agro-care/national-livestock-plan-is-ruga-in-disguise-nigerians-warn/



SHINE YOUR EYES! LET US NOT FORGET LADUGA CATTLE COLONY THAT HAS NOW OVERSPREAD AND BECOME A FULANI ENCLAVE (Google for more, and to see what Hon Jonathan Asake of Southern Kaduna has exposed)

las las God no go shame Benue....

Nigeria is on auto pilot and anything can happen
see where funny and greedy people has taken us to
let us continue to hope in the power of the Divine creator

meavox:
WITH THE INCREASED TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN NIGERIA, FULANI HERDSMEN BY THEIR TRESPASS, THEFT, RAPE, AND SLAUGHTER OF FARMERS SHOW THAT THEY ARE AGAINST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THIS LAND. IT IS HIGHLY WORRYING TOO THAT FULANI HERDSMAN CAN BE A GOOD DISGUISE FOR TERRORISTS. “RUGA” UNDER ANY NAME MUST BE RESISTED AS IT IS A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER THAT WILL BE PUT THERE FOR OUR CHILDREN TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.

===============================================================

NATIONAL LIVESTOCK PLAN IS RUGA IN DISGUISE, NIGERIANS WARN
By Femi Ibirogba, Head, Agro-Economy Desk
The Guardian Nigeria
16 September 2019

Excerpts from the article:

• As FG inaugurates first phase

Nigerians have knocked the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government for re-introducing the infamous RUGA scheme through the back door in the name of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP).This came as the government officially inaugurated the programme in Adamawa State. It will be recalled that Professor Yemi Osinbajo, representing the president, inaugurated the NLTP at the Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of Adamawa State on Tuesday, September 11, 2019.

The vice-president said the plan was designed to run from 2019-2028 as part of the government’s efforts in collaboration with states under the National Economic Council (NEC).The plan was to be implemented in seven pilot states of Adamawa, Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara, Professor Osinbajo explained.

Meanwhile, on August 16, stakeholders in Benue State, including the traditional institution, the church, socio-cultural organisations, the academia and civil society, rejected the NLTP during an interface with a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.The Tor Lobi, Chief Moses Anagende and Tor Kwande, Chief Ambrose Iyortyer, speaking for traditional rulers, said the best thing for the government was to rebuild homes, schools and churches that were destroyed by herders and make efforts to heal the highly traumatised and displaced people.

The thrust of their argument was that the NLTP document only talks about cattle and no other category of livestock, saying it was a way to re-introduce RUGA using another name. A lecturer at the Benue State University, Professor Amstrong Adejo was also said to have argued that as captured, livestock was holistic but the conclusion was particular about cattle….

The livestock policy also says, “The overall responsibility for the co-ordination of the NLTP will be carried out at the Federal level by the NEC NLTP Steering Committee through the Programme Coordination Secretariat (PCS) to be domiciled in the Office of the Vice President,” accounting for the inauguration by Vice-President Osinbajo recently, where he declared that, “I wish to emphasise that this is not RUGA. Because the idea of RUGA settlements launched by the Ministry of Agriculture created a problem when it was perceived as a plan to seize lands to create settlements for herders.”

But, from the components of the policy documents, it is very difficult to convince Nigerians that the livestock policy is not exclusively for herdsmen. It appears, from the spirit and letter of the document, a reformed RUGA agenda.Commenting, Dr Chijioke Uwasomba, a senior lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, said, “The impression being created is that perhaps, given the agitated responses of Nigerians, especially the Southeast, South-south, Southwest and the North Central, this may be a backhand way of implementing RUGA”….

….Arguments against the RUGA scheme and its offshoots have been that public resources are being allocated to the development of private cattle breeding and rearing businesses as a reward for attacks on farmers and killing innocent rural dwellers by herdsmen, while the affected farmers and villages are left to wallow in sorrow (over the loss of their loved ones), hunger and poverty. The proponents of RUGA or cattle colony have always argued that the government does support other categories of farmers, but had not supported herdsmen for once.

The herdsmen, however have been destroying farmers’ crops for years with impunity. Not only that, other categories of farmers have always been either given subsidised inputs or loans. They had never been given other people’s land, free building and social facilities by the Federal Government, as espoused in the NLTP and the RUGA scheme. Farm settlements of the old regional governments were built on community’s land though; the same community people were the beneficiaries of the settlements, not other people. The name National Livestock Transformation Plan suggests a broader and a more inclusive coverage, but its policy statement and implementation components actually point to one direction: a RUGA project in another form.


SOURCE:
https://guardian.ng/features/agro-care/national-livestock-plan-is-ruga-in-disguise-nigerians-warn/



SHINE YOUR EYES! LET US NOT FORGET LADUGA CATTLE COLONY THAT HAS NOW OVERSPREAD AND BECOME A FULANI ENCLAVE (Google for more, and to see what Hon Jonathan Asake of Southern Kaduna has exposed)

No doubt you are an IPOB frog

Wisdom is the principal thing, get wisdom.

Ruga is not NLTP. NLTP is a detailed programme that will allow the state government to provide land for the creation of cattle ranch and put to stop to cattle moving around from one place to another; town to town, farm to farm etc. This will stop farmer herder clashes and sort of conflict. NLTP will create thousands of jobs directly and indirectly.