Nigeria’s House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Agricultural Production and Services to probe the non-delivery of 2,000 tractors, implements, and 100 combined harvesters as stipulated in an agreement under the Presidential Food Security Initiative and Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanization Drive.
This followed the adoption of a motion by Saba Ahmed Adam on the floor of the house on Tuesday.
The lawmaker said it is unfortunate that despite the agreements signed by the National Agricultural Development Fund and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, no single tractor or implement has been received in Nigeria despite the huge public funds involved in these transactions.
He further described the non-delivery of the tractors and other implements as a setback to food security and a challenge to Nigeria’s food sufficiency ambition, as two farming seasons have been lost since the signing of the agreements.
(Editor: Oloyede Oworu)
