“Ruga Settlement” seeks to settle migrant pastoral families. It simply means rural settlement in which animal farmers, not just cattle herders, would be settled in an organised place with provision of necessary and adequate basic amenities. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, explained that beneficiaries of the Ruga Settlement would include all persons in animal husbandry, not only Fulani herders. ”The overall benefit to the nation includes a drastic reduction in conflicts between herders and farmers. Shehu dismissed the insinuation that Federal Government planned to seize state land or force state governments to embrace the scheme.

Source: The Guardian June 30, 2019 21:19 UTC