The NEC Committee on Farmers/Herders Crisis under the chairmanship of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at a meeting today resolved that any state that is interested in the National Livestock Transformation Plan, NLTP, should bring development plan in line with NLTP for implementation in such state. The plan must be unique based on the challenges of the state.
Those who attended the meeting included the Vice President, Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State who is the Chairman of the NEC-Sub Technical Committee on Farmers/Herders crisis, Governor of Kebi State who is the Vice Chairman of Food Security Council, Governor of Plateau State, Deputy Governor of Adamawa State, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Office of the Vice President, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr. Andrew Kwasali-Secretary of the NEC-Sub Technical Committee on Farmers/Herders Crisis and Director in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Members deliberated on the NEC and Federal Government approved programme of the NLTP and noted that President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the implementation of RUGA programme initiated and implemented alone by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources because it is not consistent with the NEC and FGN approved NLTP which has programmes of rehabilitation of displaced IDPs within crisis states and development of ranching in any willing state of the federation.
A communiqué issued at the end of the deliberation said that “the beauty of NLTP is that what NEC and FGN approved is only voluntary to all the 36 States who may like to participate.”