Rationalising The National Livestock Transformation Plan

he Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s led National Economic Council (NEC) recently launched a ten-year National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP), an agricultural initiative that involves a 100-billion-naira commitment by the federal government in collaboration with the states of the federation. This comes after the Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA) plan, a parallel plan for herdsmen supposedly invented by the Ministry of Agriculture was vehemently resisted by the larger public as an ill-intended ethnic subjugation ploy by a section of the country over others. This plan was dispensed with after many failed attempts to force it across the states of the federation.