Northern Governors adopt FG’s Livestock Transformation Plan

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Gov. Simon Lalong

Governors of the 19 Northern States have adopted the Federal Government’s National Livestock Transformation Plan. The governors also resolved to implement the entire roadmap of the plan in all member-states. They made the resolution during an emergency meeting of the Northern Governors Forum which held on Thursday at the Government House in Kaduna State.

Chairman of the forum and Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, disclosed this to reporters at the end of the meeting which lasted several hours. Governor Lalong explained that the forum adopted the plan with hopes that it would address both economic and security challenges posed by the incessant conflicts between herders and farmers in the country.

He also called on state governments that were not included in the pilot scheme of the plan to key into it. The increasing clashes between farmers and herders have recently become worrisome especially in wetland areas of the middle belt, north-central, and southern part of the country.

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