Ohanaeze described it as a tribal time bomb that would explode into tribal crisis and war in a short time.
The apex Igbo socio-cultural youth organisation, Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has rejected the proposed creation of the Ministry of Livestock by the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government
Speaking to journalists in Enugu, Enugu State capital on Monday, the National President General of OYC, Igboayaka Igboayaka, asked President Tinubu to drop the idea of creating a Ministry of Livestock, noting that it would spark a tribal war between the Fulanis and other tribes in the country.
Igboayaka recalled that former President Muhammadu Buhari tried to force RUGA down the throat of Nigerians but it was vehemently resisted and rejected by well meaning Nigerians.
He said “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should hasten up to cancel the proposed ministry of livestock as initiated by ethnic land grabbers of Fulani political oligarchy through Miyetti Allah.”
According to him, “Unfortunately, President Tinubu was misled on Tuesday July 9, 2024 into inaugurating the Presidential Committee on Implementation of Livestock Reforms which was tactically keyed in as a means to address obstacles to agricultural productivity and open up new opportunities which benefit farmers, herders, processors and distributors in the livestock-farming value chain, but in actual sense it is reintroduction of RUGA from back door.”
He added that “It’s historic that the Yorubas have suffered untold ethnic farmers crisis and killings by Fulani herders, therefore President Bola Ahmed Tinubu creation of livestock ministry is an attempt to arm Fulani herders and institutionalised a monster that will pose a threat to consume Yoruba farmers.”
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