Buhari Pursued "RUGA" Vigorously Yet Drags Feet On Funding Universities

                           

The issue of the funding of Federal universities and implementation of the agreement reached with ASUU has been on President Buhari's desk for four (4) years now. The attention expected to be given to such an important issue has not been given to it.

Yet this same president is vigorously pursuing the matter of what ordinarily is a PRIVATE SECTOR issue. Who owns the cows the federal government wants to use federal funds to boost? Are the owners of the cows paying anything back to the government in return in form of tax or payback of the funds to be injected? Why is there no similar funding for poultry farmers, pig farmers and other livestock?

Do we run a military state where the Federal dictates to the states?
Who owns the lands constitutionally - federal or state?
Can the federal in a democracy enforce itself on states?

More importantly, how many millions of cows do we have in Nigeria?
How much space in square kilometres of land is required to raise them?
Which states have more cows?
Can the required land space not be secured in those states?

Are we raising the cows of the entire West African region?

These and many more other pertinent questions are not been raised. The government too is operating as a secret society in this issue. Stakeholders are hardly engaged in what it wants to do. The federal government has left what is directly it's own - the funding of the educational institutions and is running with a private sector matter - the rearing of cows. What a shame!

At the end of the day unmanageable consequences will result that would end up retarding our growth as a nation. And all because of serving personal and sectional interests.