Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, on Thursday presented to President Bola Tinubu a 152-page report detailing reform measures for the livestock sector.
Part of the report recommended a ten-year transformation process through which Nigerians and the government can harness gains in the sector.
Prof. Jega was appointed the Co-Chairman of the Presidential Livestock Reforms Committee in July, this year.
The report also includes operational guidelines for the Federal Ministry of Livestock Development, a new ministry created by the Tinubu administration recently.
The 152-page document also includes recommendations on how best issues that result in farmers-herders crisis can be resolved amicably.
Briefing State House correspondents on Thursday, Jega criticised Nigerians who always associate livestock to farmers-herders crisis, stressing that the sector holds enormous potentials for investment opportunities.
A Director of National Project Coordinator Livestock Productivity and Resilence Support Project at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Winnie Lai-Solarin, said poultry sector alone holds a N1.7 trillion potential, especially in the value chains.
Recall that while inaugurating the committee, Tinubu had insisted that livestock reform had become necessary to open up new opportunities to benefit farmers, herders, processors and distributors in the livestock-farming value chain.
Tinubu had also emphasised that the implementation of the reforms would require the collective efforts of members of the committee, drawn from the public and private sectors, state governors and others.
He had cautioned them to remove every iota of partisan politics from it.
“This is not about politics; this is about opportunity. This is about our nation. While I may be absent, Jega will preside and continue to promote our objectives,” the president had stated.
