The Fulani socio-cultural group, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has rejected a bill that seeks to establish a national agency for the regulation and management of ranches in Nigeria.
MACBAN's national president, Alhaji Baba Usman Ngelzarma, announced the association's opposition to the bill at the weekend while speaking to newsmen in Damaturu, shortly after the inauguration of the state executive council of the association. He said that a Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development should be created instead.
He then called on President Bola Tinubu to implement the recommendations of the Livestock Reforms and Mitigation Committee, headed by the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, which was set up to seek a lasting solution to the perennial farmers-herders conflict in rural areas. 'We submitted Jega's report on livestock reform and mitigation sometime last year.
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