WE WILL NOT GIVE OUR LANDS FOR RANCHING

The five governors of southeastern states of Nigeria has vowed not to give their land to be used as ranches in other to appease cattle herders from the north. 

Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and David Umahi of Enugu and Ebonyi states, and the deputies of Abia and Anambra states revealed this after a meeting on Sunday night in Enugu.

The chairman of the meeting spoke to the press after the meeting stating the resolve of the states in the zone that although the federal government has not requested for land to be donated in the zone for the purpose of ranching, but the various state governments have concluded that there is no such land to be donated even if the federal government request.

o land in the South-east has been donated for ranching. We have not donated any land; we have not been asked to donate and we are not going to donate.

Ranching is not approved by the South-east governors in the South-east.