The All Progressives Congress (APC), has accused the state Governor Dauda Lawal of failing to inform the people the number of trucks of fertilizers received from the Federal government.
This is coming shortly after governor Lawal flagged off the distribution of 135 trucks of fertilizer to the state’s farming community recently, which according to the APC left many unanswered questions on the lips of the people.
It was alleged that during the flag off, governor Dauda Lawal announced that 81,000 bags of the commodity would be distributed free to a total of 40,500 farmers but failed to state how the beneficiaries will be identified or selected at a time when the wet season farming has gone more than halfway into the rainy season.
The party is also accusing the Zamfara State Government of hijacking the Federal government’s NG-Cares Programme, which the fertilizer scheme falls under, insisting that the state government bought the fertilizers for its farmers to buy at a subsidized rate.
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They say that Nigerians are aware how the federal government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration distributed hundreds of trucks of fertilisers to states for distribution to farmers, Zamfara State inclusive.
They maintained that the governor failed to inform the citizens during the launching to appreciate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s agricultural transformation policy as being done by other state governors.
The opposition APC noted that as citizens of Zamfara State, they are not aware whether there was any bid for the supply of fertilizer to the state and at what cost and quantity of the product to be supplied.
It said, they saw the governor on TV programme announcing that the farmers can freely access their farmlands because his government has improved the security situation in the state, describing the governor’s claim as ridiculous because many farmers are unable to access their farms because of the increasing activities of bandits.
(Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie)
