The Bill for an act to provide for National Livestock Bureau scaled Second Reading at last Tuesday’s plenary session. It would be recalled that a similar bill was considered by the 8th Senate, but was not passed. It is like government desiring to count the cars in all the private car shops in Nigeria. “That is why I think this Bill is provocative and mocking victims of banditry and herders incursions into private farmlands. Livestock belong to private business enterprises; they should concentrate on border control, banditry, kidnapping, smuggling, corruption, unemployment and naira devaluation.

Source: The Guardian April 24, 2021 04:52 UTC