{"id":50009,"date":"2021-09-13T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/fgs-farm-estates-will-end-banditry-should-not-be-politicized-von-dg-okechukwu"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:08:15","slug":"fgs-farm-estates-will-end-banditry-should-not-be-politicized-von-dg-okechukwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fgs-farm-estates-will-end-banditry-should-not-be-politicized-von-dg-okechukwu","title":{"rendered":"FG\u2019s Farm Estates will end banditry, should not be politicized \u2013 VON DG, Okechukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has urged the people of Enugu State to embrace the Federal Government\u2019s ongoing Integrated Farm Estate Project.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government had announced recently that it would establish Integrated Farm Estates across the 109 Senatorial districts of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Government\u2019s plan has been faced with mixed feelings, as some feel it was an indirect way of reintroducing the controversial RUGA project.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists on Sunday in Enugu, Mr. Okechukwu appealed to Enugu communities to participate fully in the project. As the farm projects will be managed by the communities themselves not Fulanis, it is community based.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the FG\u2019s programme, meant for the 109 Senatorial districts, was a presidential mandate to close bandits\u2019 market, provide employment and food security.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okechukwu explained that he was making the passionate appeal \u201cbecause our people are embarrassingly missing billions of Naira budget from the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), unlike other geopolitical zones, in one of the key projects in the Buhari\u2019s Agrarian Revolution value chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he was subscribing to back to land project, stressing that, \u201cit is community based, and aimed at generating mass employment, as creation of employment is the best way to close banditry, kidnappings and terrorism in our land. For an idle mind is the devil\u2019s workshop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EBUBEAGU: VON DG, Okechukwu hails Southeast Governors<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu said that it was regrettable that some people\u2019s preoccupation had become stock-pilling hatred against the central government as if President Buhari was going to preside over Nigeria for life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not gloss over the truism that the central government remains the only common shelter, which shelters us all. In no distant future Nigeria will take her destined status as giant of Africa. Therefore, it is not pragmatic to cut our nose to spite Buhari\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, we should not reject humanitarian projects which ignite employment, close bandits\u2019 markets, reduce poverty and provide food security, because of sentiments,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<p>Okechukwu further said that he was happy that the Executive Secretary of National Land Development Authority (NALDA), Prince Paul Ikonne, had clarified the concept of the programme thus:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe true position is that the integrated farm estate is designed to accommodate the youths from that community in order to engage them in the entire agricultural value chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it depends on what the community is interested in going into, some states are getting into poultry like in the north, in the south like Abia they\u2019re doing fishery and rabbit rearing. In Oyo we already have rabbit rearing and crop farming; in Ekiti crop farming. \u2026..it is not another or anything that has to do with Rural Grazing Area (RUGA); what we have is poultry, fishery, piggery and any farming model of the choice of the community,\u201d he quoted Ikonne as saying.<\/p>\n<p>2023: Why Tinubu did not become Buhari\u2019s vice-president \u2013 VON Director-General, Okechukwu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has urged the people of Enugu State to embrace the Federal Government\u2019s ongoing Integrated Farm Estate Project. The Federal Government had announced recently that it would establish Integrated Farm Estates across the 109 Senatorial districts of Nigeria. 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