The Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has said that he provided land for Fulani herdsmen for their trade when he was the governor of the State between 1999 to 2007.
At an interaction with the Senate Press Corps today, July 12, the lawmaker, who is a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said: “I provided land for herders in Umuahia during my time as governor of Abia State where cattle were brought from the North for sale across the Southeast and there were no problems.
“When the executive members of Miyetti Allah approached my government, I chose where Shoprite is located now for them along the Port Harcourt expressway.
“One day, I took a 32-seater bus and I asked their Executives to follow me to where I showed them and they agreed that it was appropriate for them and that was how I established RUGA.”
The Chief Whip said that he trades in cows, saying that cow business is profiteering.
According to him, many Nigerian elite have cows and they are interested in that business, adding that it is wrong for people to see cow business as exclusively that of the Fulani.
