Zulum inaugurates Ngarannam Livestock Ranch Settlement in Borno

The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has inaugurated the Ngarannam Livestock Ranch Settlement (NLRS) for communities affected by Boko Haram insurgency.

According to him, the ranch is a four-square kilometre land along Maiduguru-Dikwa road. While commissioning the ranch, he said: “The NLRS project comprises a housing estate for 461 nomadic families, roads, a school, health, veterinary, and the state-of-art dairy and beef processing centres.”

Additionally, he said other facilities included pasture development and milk collection centres, markets, an earth dam, and a security post to ensure safety of pastoralists and their livestock.

Impressed with Zulum’s first ranch in the country, the former Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Co-Chair of the Presidential Livestock Reforms Committee (PLRC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, commended Zulum for establishing a cattle ranch that is first of its kind in the country.

He said: “I witnessed today something I had never seen in our country. We’ve seen today the vision of a leader, the passion and commitment to what clearly help drive economic growth and development.”

Besides the drive for development, he noted that the development of livestock, will also create job opportunities and livelihoods to the people. Jega, therefore, urged Zulum to sustain the leadership and commitment in the development of the livestock sector.

He continued: “The establishment of cattle ranches in the country will not only ensure food security, but overcome the challenges of protecting of protecting people’s lives and property.” The Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Mukhtar Maiha, branded the state governor with the Ministry’s logo, in appreciating.

The Deputy Governor, Usman Kadafur, who oversees the state’s Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, disclosed that besides the inaugurated Ngarannam ranch, the Gubio and Rumirgo ranches in North and South senatorial districts, have reached 90 per cent completion by the contractors for commission this year.