How I brought RUGA to Abia- Orji Kalu
Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Friday said that the apprehension being expressed over the plan by the Federal Government to create Fulani settlements for herders under the acronym name of RUGA was misplaced.
He insisted that the establishment of RUGA in parts of the country was not what anybody should be worried about.He said that the settlement he created for Fulani herders has become the biggest cow market in the South east and the South south. “In Lokpanta, I built a place where the whole cattle is sold in Umuahia and Aba, in 2001, when I became governor.“What they call Shoprite today, used to be cattle settlement if anybody knows that. The same thing with Aba I had an honest meeting with them where I said I was going to provide electricity and water but this is where you are going to be.
“They will fear and say that they want to kill all of us. Some of us are the largest sellers of cattle. I started selling cows as far back as when I was in the university On African Continental Free Trade Area, he said “If we must be in competition on ACFTA, the Federal government must designate Kano, Kaduna, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Lagos, Ibadan, Port Harcourt and make this places special cases that the Federal Government will pump in money.
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