Zamfara earmarks hectares of land for Ruga settlement

Zamfara state governor, Bello Matawalle, says the state would implement the Ruga settlements initiative, to resettle herders and boost economic activities.

The governor told the speaker of the house of representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajiamila who visited the state that the state government would go ahead with the programme in spite of its suspension by the federal government.

The governor said arrangements had been put in place to set up the Ruga settlement on a 100 hecter land in each of the three senatorial districts of the state.

He said the government would provide schools, hospitals and veterinary clinics as well as earth dams in the new settlements.

He appealed to the leadership of the national assembly to facilitate the release of 10 billion naira federal government special intervention fund approved for the state to resettle people displaced by banditry.