Nigeria: Govt's Proposed Ranching Projects

29 June 2018

We are perturbed by the Federal Government's recent announcement of its plan to establish ranches in some states, perhaps as its own idea of ending the unrelenting massacres and displacement of farming communities by armed herdsmen, especially in the central states of Nigeria.

According to the scheme known as the Livestock Transformation Plan, the Federal Government is to spend N179 billion over 10 years to establish ranches throughout the country. Ten states- Adamawa, Benue, Ebonyi, Edo, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara - have been selected for the pilot of the scheme proposed by the National Economic Council, NEC, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

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