A bill to establish the National Animal Husbandry and Ranches Commission has passed for a second reading on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday after a heated debate during plenary.
Senator Zam, who spoke on the general principles of the bill, urged his colleagues to pass the bill, saying, “The proposed National Animal Husbandry and Ranches Commission is for management, preservation, and control of ranches throughout Nigeria.”
The bill, however, met stiff opposition from Senators Danjuma Goje (Gombe Central) and Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central).
The two senators who are both former governors argued that cattle rearing and ranching activities were more in the North than in other parts of the country, explaining that lawmaking should be for the benefit of the entire country and not for a particular section.
According to Goje, cattle routes begin from the far north and end in Lokoja as “the route does not extend to the South.”
In his contribution, Senator Hussein Babangida Uba (Jigawa North-West), called for caution in passing the bill, considering its trail of controversies in the past.
But other Senators who contributed called for the passage of the bill, since the proposed Commission would manage the issue of farmers/herders crisis in the country.
The bill was passed after it was put to voice vote by Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and then referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Judiciary and Legal Matters to be reverted to the committee of whole in four weeks.
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