The current move, called the Ruga settlement option, is not different. Accordingly, it has reportedly awarded contracts for Ruga settlements in 12 pilot states, including Plateau, Zamfara, Kaduna and Kano. Surprisingly, the Federal Government has been going round with wrong diagnoses, mischievous justifications and ghastly solutions to the herders’ criminal intent. As reported, the Ruga settlement option that has already received Buhari’s assent would secure land from “willing states,” build schools, clinics, houses and other infrastructure and settle the nomads there. In that zone, whereas grazing land was 61 per cent of all land in use, only 14 per cent was farmland.

Source: Punch July 02, 2019 02:03 UTC