The Vice President Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, is billed to visit Yola, the Adamawa state capital on Tuesday next week to unveil the strategy document and flag off the implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP).
The NLTP ten year plan (2019-2028) is a conceived home plan by the FG to tackle the prevailing violence and conflicts between herders/farmers and the poor performance of the livestock in Nigeria.
This is coming even as the Indigenous Ethnic Nationalities (IEN) of Adamawa state said that the acceptability and comprehensive implementation of NLTP will depend on government's readiness to tow the part of reconstruction and rehabilitation of the crises ravaged communities in the wake of herders/farmers' conflicts, as the first pillar of the implementation process of the NLTP policy strategy.
The Chairman of Six- Man Technical Committee on NLTP, Professor Ambrose Voh, gave the hint during an interactive session between the state office of NLTP and IEN, held at Galaxy Hotel Numan, the headquarters of Numan Federation.
Prof. Voh explained that the VP Osinbajo is expected in the state on 10th September, 2019 to unveil the strategy document and flag off the implementation of the programme in the state.
He disclosed that the programme was approved by the National Executive Council (NEC) to operate under the office of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, while 7 state namely, Adamawa, Benue, Kaduna, Nassarawa, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara states were selected as pilot states for the programme, explaining that the affected states are not under compulsion to embrace the NLTP programme.
According to him, states are at liberty to develop the programme according to their peculiarities, while they are expected to pay 20% of the counterpart funding, saying that 31 out of 69 Grazing Reserves are officially gazetted in the state with only 5 of them selected for the pilot projects which include; Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo Belwa LGA, Nassarawa in Jada, Bauchi in Song, Guyaku in Gombi and Sorau in Maiha LGAs.
He added that besides Ranching which is one of the pillars of NLTP, there are 5 supporting pillars: Humanitarian Relief and Early Recovery, Conflict Prevention/Resolution, Human Capital Resources, and Justice and Peace and Cross Cutting Issues, saying that the programme in the state is taking off with the Humanitarian relief land early recovery as its first pillar and Adamawa version of the plan.
He pointed out that in response to the State Government's insistence that the NTLP will not be implemented in the state until the FG makes its appearance in the to own up the NLTP strategy document, the VP is due to visit the state next week to flag off the implementation.
Prof Ambrose Voh, expressed optimism that when implemented, the programme will be a sure way to the realisation of justice and peace, as well as make animal husbandry a profitable business in the state.
Speaking on behalf of the Adamawa Indigenous Nationalities, a Human Rights Consultant with the United Nations on Human Rights Violations in Nigeria, Dr. Morris Stanley, lamented that the Nigerian government has neglected its responsibility by not responding on the damages caused by conflicts in some parts of Nigeria.
Dr. Stanley argued that the ravaged communities will only appreciate government's programme if it begins with the reconstruction and rehabilitation of such communities before venturing into other pillars of the policy strategy.
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He however called on the Nigerian government to review the ECOWAS free movement treaty which has been responsible for the influx and increasing spate of attacks by foreign nomads.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Secretary General of Numan Federation Foundation (NUFF), Prince Medan Z. Fwa, said that the meeting of IEN of NUFF was intended to promote better understanding of the NLTP policy of the FG owing to the tension and national conversation it has generated since the approval of NLTP and RUGA settlement policy.
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