The over 2,000 Southerners that are repatriated from Libya are joining the queue of unemployment once more, from the rear. It is a very long one.
I have a suggestion, a ready made job if their state governments care so much about them. This is a brand new profession that has no queue of the unemployed waiting for it: Cattle Ranching.
Ranching, we are told, is a very profitable job in Nigeria. There is a lot of land in their states to practice it, which they can access freely as indigenes, without any hindrance. As Nigerians they can also approach the banks for loans. And behold, the market of 160 million people is also anxiously waiting for their beef and milk.
Advocates of instant ranching must come to the aid of these battered Nigerians. Governors of Ekiti and Edo and those of Biafraland should take the lead. Supporters of anti-open grazing laws can pick up this campaign. We the gradualists are too lazy and unrealistic for that.
If there is not enough space in the south, Governors Ortom and Darius are ready to substitute their marauding herdsmen with this elite stock of trouble-free ranchers. Unfortunately, these are the only two states in the North that ranching-by-fiat decrees have been passed into law. In Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Kaduna and other northern states, the elite ranchers will face stiff competition from herdsmen and rustlers.
Instantly establishing 2,800 cattle ranches for jobless Nigerians is not a bad idea. Is it?
Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde
9 January, 2018
9 January, 2018
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