Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Policy Impact of My Blog

Oga Biko,

I don't know what you are celebrating here: that your blog pioneered the suggestion of ranching in Nigeria or that the Army is deviating from its core business of keeping the nation safe to go to Argentina to learn ranching or that Nigeria is leaving Africa, as if there are no countries with examples of great ranching traditions (Botswana for example, which am sure your are familiar with the fact that there, there are more cows that humans) to go to Argentina to learn ranching? What a country, Nigeria?

Am sure that you will not be the first one to tell Nigeria that following the cattle from Sokoto and Maiduguri to Lagos and Port-Harcourt like primitives is senseless and recipe for disaster. Am sure studies and tomes are sitting somewhere gathering dust, conducted with funds from our common patrimony that has done more than just a blog spot, which no one looks at. Didn't I hear Nigeria say whe was going to import grass seedlings or some grassed soil from Brazil or somewhere sometime ago to provide grazing food for the Cattle?

Anyway, Oga mi, CONGRATULATIONS. Instead of being jubilant, I would have been very sad by the turn of events, if I were you. But, maybe they will now make you the executive director of cattle ranching in Nigeria!

Anyway, may your shadows continue to grow long and your clan continue to multiply. The very best to you and loved ones this keresi and beyond.

Ire o.

Tunde.
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On Wed, 21/12/16, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Policy Impact of My Blog
To: "Usaafricadialogue" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, 21 December, 2016, 14:25

Sometimes
the authorities listen to good ideas but the implementation
often skews the ideas away from success. Finally, President
Buhari has bought the idea that I blogged in April calling
for ranches to be set up as a way of modernizing beef and
dairy productions while avoiding clashes between herders and
farmers. The retired General Buhari has just announced that
soldiers would be sent to Argentina to learn ranching and
return to set up ranches in Nigeria. Why only soldiers when
the army of unemployed youth could be mobilized and
empowered by being funded to be trained and enabled to run
ranches as cooperatives across the country. Here is my
original blog on the issue: http://massliteracy.blogspot.
com/2016/04/in-praise-of-
nigerian-cattle-herders.html 

And
here is the news of the proposal to train soldiers on
ranching:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/
2016/12/nigerian-army-set-
cattle-ranches-nationwide/

Biko



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