Herdsmen: Senator Owie warns Buhari against using Nigeria’s money for ranches

A former Chief whip of the Senate, and chieftain of Action Democratic
Party, ADP, Senator Rowland Owie, yesterday, warned President
Muhammadu Buhari against using public funds to build cattle ranches in
the country.


The ADP chieftain said cattle rearing remained a private business and
it would be illegal for the president to spend taxpayers' money to set
up ranches.

Owie, who also is the Chairman, National Contact Committee of ADP,
further admonished that "The All Progressives Congress, APC-led
Federal Government should also perish the idea of establishing ranches
in states. Cattle rearing is private business and those involved in
that business should sort themselves out and government funds must not
be used for it."


Reacting to the comment by the President that the budget will be
difficult to implement, after he accused the National Assembly of
inserting N578billion into the budget, he said the President should
not expect the National Assembly to always do his bidding since it was
an independent body outside the Executive.

According to Owie, "I wish to call on a few democrats that are still
in the APC to tell President Buhari that the National Assembly is
never and can never be a rubber stamp Assembly and that the President
be tutored on the difference between Supreme Military Council and the
Federal Executive Council and the National Assembly in a democracy."