Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has expressed total displeasure that the state has not evenly benefitted from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development especially in the construction of road projects in the state.
The Governor made the disclosure on Friday when the State Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development paid him a courtesy call at the Government House, Gombe.
He explained that despite repeated visits of the Minister either thrice or forth time in the state that nothing tangible thing had come from all the visits and asked the ministry to show them the proof of their projects despite the Federal Government efforts to alleviate the suffering of the people through the ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Governor also lamented that the Ministry should be up and doing in addressing the issues of poverty and joblessness through providing palliatives to the state as Gombe State which is the centre of North East Zone and has what it takes to benefit from the ministry, saying that Gombe State has Cottons in large quantities, Multi- Million Naira Industrial Park, Multi Billion Naira Dadim- kowa Water Dam, and other related projects in the state which can serve as a channel of interventions in the issue of agricultural related programes of the ministry.
According to him, Gombe State is an agrarian state which made it possible for the state government to put agriculture as its priority through accorded it all necessary support such as supplying of fertilizers, agricultural inputs and other necessary assistance to this sector to boost agricultural productivity, reduce joblessness of the youths, crimes and and criminalities through mechanized farming in the state, saying the Federal College of Horticulture in Yamaltu/ Deba could be of assistance to them in area of quality and qualitative seeds and agricultural products in the state.
While speaking, the State Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon Mustaph Baba Shehuri explained that he was in the state to flagged off agricultural inputs distribution to farmers national wide.
The Minister catalogued the activities of the ministry and their mandates which reducing the poverty level of Nigerians through the scheme was one of their core mandates.
At the venue of the flagging – off of the distribution ceremony in BCJ where the ministry showcased different varieties of agricultural products ranging from foodcrops, agricultural implements, chemicals, agricultural plants, equipments,the State Director later explained that the ministry has constructed feeder roads in the state, assuring the Governor that he would make available the list of their interventions in the state especially road construction in Balanga local government area of the state.
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