The states are Adamawa, Kwara, Niger, Bauchi, Kaduna and Gombe.
The Muhammadu Buhari regime has instituted a scheme termed the Livestock Intervention Programme which will see to the establishment of herdsmen settlements and grazing areas in six pilot states.The Buhari government seeks to have the new scheme replace the contentious Rural Grazing Area scheme in July 2019 popularly known as RUGA.
The documents revealed that the government would establish eight large herders’ settlements in each of the six pilot states. Asked if the Nigerian Government would reactivate the suspended RUGA programme since the clashes between herders and farmers had yet to subside, the acting Director, Animal Husbandry Department, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development , Winnie Lai-Solarin replied, “What we have now is the Livestock Intervention Project. And this intervention will take place in the settlements. It might also interest you to know that right now, the intervention has been reduced to six states.
Lai-Solarin confirmed that the Federal Government was establishing the livestock settlement in eight locations in each of the six states.
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