{"id":136296,"date":"2019-07-16T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136296"},"modified":"2019-07-16T17:32:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:32:20","slug":"zamfara-governor-meets-gbajabiamila-reveals-plan-to-establish-three-ruga-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136296","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara Governor Meets Gbajabiamila, Reveals Plan To Establish Three RUGA Settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Zamfara-Governor-Meets-Gbajabiamila-Reveals-Plan-To-Establish-Three-RUGA-Settlements.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Governor Bello Matawalle has spoken of plans to begin the establishment of the Rural Grazing Area Initiative by the Zamfara State Government.<\/p>\n<p>Matawalle made this known while speaking when he hosted the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the Zamfara State House.<\/p>\n<p>He declared that the Zamfara government had unanimously agreed to key into the initiative and set aside lands for the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe have already concluded arrangements to set up three RUGA settlements, one for each of our three senatorial zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue of RUGA, which is being debated across the vast spectrum of the federation, has been unanimously accepted in our state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince time immemorial, the communities of farmers and herders in the state have been living together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though there were skirmishes from time to time,  they did not take the ugly dimension they have taken in our contemporary times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor mentioned that the initiative would transform the nomads and address the clash between the farmers and herdsmen in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe are confident that the RUGA programme would confine the nomads to sedentary life and would significantly address the farmer-herder crisis in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe settlements would include, among other things, 100 hectares of land, formal and Islamiyya schools, hospitals, earth dams and veterinary hospitals and many other social amenities that would make the Fulani community and their herds of cattle relatively comfortable.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Bello Matawalle has spoken of plans to begin the establishment of the Rural Grazing Area Initiative by the Zamfara State Government. Matawalle made this known while speaking when he hosted the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the Zamfara State House. He declared that the Zamfara government had unanimously agreed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[30,4866,12447,3761,5633,12665,271,12762],"class_list":["post-136296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-arewa","tag-crime","tag-gbajabiamila","tag-insecurity","tag-killings","tag-ruga-settelment","tag-zamfara","tag-zamfara-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}