KACRAN appeals to President Tinubu to stop exclusion of pastoralists in government’s policies, programmes
The Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN), has appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to stop the exclusion of pastoralists in the government’s policies and programmes.
The association in a statement issued on Thursday and sent to Neptune Prime said the reason for its appeal is that government is always interested in executing white elephant projects such as constructions of roads, bridges, offices, houses, solar energy, development of arable farming among others without considering the investment of livestock development which is the bed rock for the provision of nutritional food and additional income to the country.
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The association expressed disappointment from the immediate past Senate President, Senator Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan who promised to lead a struggle that will provide justice and fairness to Nigeria’s herders after admitting that they had been totally ignored by the previous governments but was unable to live to fulfill his promise his tenure as president of the senate.
The association also cited how previous ministers of agriculture and senior officials in the ministry raised the importance of including Nigeria’s pastoralists and pastoralism in the mainstream of government’s developmental agenda for its needed attention but to no avail.
To this, the association is “passionately appealing to His Excellency President Bala Ahmed Tinubu, who majority of Nigerians believed is a genuine Democrat, came with strong visions and mission to free Nigerians from the foreign and internal avoidable debts and bringing to an end the people’s suffering within the most shortest period of time, to please kindly end the exclusion of pastoralists in the Government’s policies and programmes, by making adequate budgetary provision in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and Directorate of Animal Husbandry Services and Rural Development in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) which is aimed at developing livestock in Nigeria.
The association “wants to remind the members of the said committees to note that pastoralists are the most negatively affected by the hardship/difficulties faced by Nigerians due to the total removal of oil subsidy because, our people are mostly residing in the bushes and remote areas who on daily basis have go to various markets to buy their daily needs which rendered them to be the most vulnerable as per as paying high cost of transportation is concern to please wholistically capture herders in their expected novel submission to our beloved/action President.
Therefore, they, “call on President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to please make strong provision/arrangement through the Directorate of Animal Husbandry Services of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to be distributed monthly or quarterly by the said Directorate as palliative to Nigeria’s Herders. Because, this is the only way the nation’s Pastoralists will be amongst the beneficiaries of President Tinubu’s good administration’s gestures.”
