The Office of the Vice President says the establishment 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 Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, dismissed the reports in a statement in Abuja.
The Ruga initiative is different from the National Livestock Transformation Plan approved by State governors under the auspices of the National Economic Council chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Akande said that NEC on January 17, approved the plan based on the recommendations of a Technical Committee of the Council chaired by Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State.
He said that other state governors in the committee and Working Group of NEC were those from Adamawa, Kaduna, Benue, Taraba, Edo, Plateau, Oyo and Zamfara – mostly the frontline states in the farmer-herder crises.
