YORUBA UNITY FORUM KICKS AGAINST RUGA SETTLEMENT

The communiqué also, pointed out that, the body suspect that the National Livestock Transformation Programme (NLT), is being tampered with, to accommodate its illegal transmutation to RUGA

The Group which represents the interests of Yorubas, both at home, and in the Diaspora, therefore declared that the National Livestock Transformation Programme (NLTP) should consequently be abrogated

Penpushing further reports that other positions of the body include; encourages all South West Governors to establish ranches as was done in the old Western Region under the erudite leadership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo

*Further insists that on no account, should any Southwest Governor give any land to Fulani settlers; opposed to the Executive Bill desirous of taking over All River boundaries; consider it an attempt by the Federal Government to illegally take over lands in the country;

*Calls on the National Assembly to resist overtures by the Federal Government  to repeal the Land Use Act, in its morbid desire to usurp the constitutional role of State Governors, particularly as relates to divesting them of the powers of land allocation, vested in them constitutionally;

*Resolved that Yorubas should checkmate these aggressive herdsmen, albeit frontally, and strive to defend stoutly, the territorial integrity of Yorubaland; urges traditional institutions to be awake to their responsibility as chief security officers of their domains, and work hard to protect lives and properties of their subjects;