3 states willing to implement national livestock plan -Umahi

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Executive Governor of Ebonyi state, Dr. Dave Umahi

Three states are ready for the take off of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) of National Economic Council (NEC), Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi has disclosed.

Umahi, who is the Chairman of NEC’s Sub-committee on Farmer-Herder Crisis, spoke after the committee’s meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The vice president is the chairman of NEC.

He said that NLTP was for willing states which he listed as Adamawa, Plateau and Nasarawa.

According to the governor, the sub-committee has a mandate of resolving the lingering conflicts between farmers and herders.

“It is just a furtherance of our committee’s programmes towards the implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) of NEC.

“And so, we are getting there, we have penciled down three states that we have evaluated; Adamawa, Plateau and Nasarawa; and so, we are going ahead to ask them to submit…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper