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June 29, 2019
The Office of the Vice President says theestablishment of Ruga settlements is not being supervised by the office,contrary to claims in sections of the media.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Mediaand Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, dismissed thereports in a statement in Abuja.
The Ruga initiative is different from the NationalLivestock Transformation Plan approved by State governors under the auspices ofthe National Economic Council chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Akande said that NEC on January 17, approved theplan based on the recommendations of a Technical Committee of the Councilchaired by Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State.
He said that other state governors in the committeeand Working Group of NEC were those from Adamawa, Kaduna, Benue, Taraba, Edo,Plateau, Oyo and Zamfara – mostly the frontline states in the farmer-herdercrises.