Sokoto State Government and the AFrican Development Bank (AfDB) Mull Ranchers, Grazing Reserves Set Up
Sokoto state government and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are working closely towards the feasibility of raising ranches and grazing reserves in parts of the state so as to improve livestock farming and curtail the preponderance of banditry and sundry crimes arising therefrom. This was part of the take-always from a meeting Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state and a team of his Commissioners had with the management of the AfDB, led by the President of its President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, in the bank’s headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. According to the state Commissioner for Animal Health, Prof. Abdulkadir Junaidu, the move is in furtherance of the state government’s ongoing efforts to achieve the same goal. Prof. Junaidu, who also briefed the AfDB management team during the Abidjan meeting, said the thrust towards the realization of this objective with the support of the continental bank would entail a public-private partnerships that will enhance achievement of the s...