Can someone please explain to me why Tinubu and Shettima have not unveiled a livestock production policy that looks something like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We will dramatically increase the number of cattle in Nigeria from the current 20m to the 189m produced in India, turning Nigeria into a major global exporter

[2] We will aggressively woo investors to invest in dairy plants, leather factories, abattoirs, meat cold storage facilities, refrigerated lorries, etc

[3] Livestock transportation facilities will be upgraded across the country. As part of this programme, we will even open a cattle railway wagon manufacturing facility in which the government will have a 25% stake

[4] We will open six mega ranches in Niger, Borno, Taraba, Yobe, Bauchi and Kaduna states, all of them need to be linked by a commercial railway network. This network will extend to major marketers like Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Enugu, Benin, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, etc

[5] As part of our industrialisation programme, we will also woo investors to come and open plants manufacturing ancillary equipment like leather processing equipment and milking machines

[6] In the Niger Delta we will open the world’s largest livestock shipyard. It will build ships specifically manufactured to ferry cattle, sheep, goats etc across oceans. Nigeria will become the manufacturing capital of such vessels. Again, the federal government will have a 25% stake in the venture

[7] By the end of 2023, every single Fulani herdsman in Nigeria would have been settled on a ranch. They will be disarmed and trained on modern livestock production techniques

[9] Innoson Motors has until January 2024 to deliver a prototype of a unique refrigerated trailer or truck that can serve as a mobile abattoir. Such vehicles should be electric-powered, with solar panels on their roofs

[9] As part of an ambitious and unprecedented drive to fight protein deficiency in Nigeria, we launch railway abattoirs whereby livestock are slaughtered as they leave ranches and then butchered on trains enroute to markets. By the time a train arrives at Abuja from Mokwa for instance, the cattle should be in small pieces ready to be distributed to restaurants and retailers

[10] By 2027, our six mega ranches would have developed into fully fledged towns with police stations, general hospitals, universities, factories, etc. They will also help end Nigeria’s out-of-school crisis whereby 10m kids and potential terrorists/kidnappers are roaming the streets