The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, VON and a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress, Osita Okechukwu has urged the people of Enugu State to embrace the Federal Government’s ongoing Integrated Farm Estate Project.
The Federal Government had announced recently that it would establish Integrated Farm Estates across the 109 Senatorial Districts of the State.
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However, the Government’s plan has been faced with mixed feelings, as section of the people believe that it is a reintroduction of the controversial RUGA project.
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Okechukwu appealed to Enugu communities to participate fully in the project as the farm projects will be managed by the communities themselves not Fulanis.
He said that the FG’s programme, meant for the 109 Senatorial districts, was a presidential mandate to close bandits’ market, provide employment and food security.
Okechukwu explained that he was making the passionate appeal because the people of the south east are embarrassingly missing billions of Naira from the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), unlike other geopolitical zones, in one of the key projects in the Buhari’s Agrarian Revolution value chain.
Okechukwu said that it was regrettable that some people’s past time had become stock-pilling hatred against the central government as if President Buhari was going to preside over Nigeria for life.
We should not gloss over the truism that the central government remains the only common shelter, which covers us all adding that it is not pragmatic to cut our nose to spite Buhari’s face.
