The National Livestock Reforms Committee has recommended the establishment of Ministry of Livestock that will supervise issues of farmers/herders clashes in the country.
The committee submitted its recommendation on the reformation of livestock business in the country to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday.
Dailytrust reported that the former governor of Kano State and National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, led the delegation.
While speaking, he said there were four types of herdsmanship in the country, stating that “there are herders that settle at home, there are the ones, who are Nigerians that move from different parts of the country to another, there are herdsmen that come from neighbouring West African countries as well as the ones that have settled among certain ethnic nationalities that have become indigenes of the area.
Ganduje further expressed appreciation of the opportunity to lead his team before the president, noting that the team presented a report of the national conference on Livestock reforms.
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