Bejide Wants Ekiti Agric Potentials Harnessed
Ekiti State has the agricultural potentials to feed Nigeria, if right farming policies are adopted, the former Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada, Amb. Dare Bejide, has said
Bejide, who once served as the Chairman federal Teaching hospital Kebbi, also stressed the need for even spread of development to rural areas rather than concentrating on urban centres.
Speaking with Journalists in Ado Ekiti, at the weekend, Bejide, who has indicated his ambition to contest for the 2018 governorship election in the Peoples Democratic Party called for people’s participation in the act of governance.
According to him, “A situation where an individual is calling the shots everywhere is not in the interest of the state.
“There is neglect of agriculture, we only talk about money coming from Abuja and how to distribute it. By virtue of our location, we should be able to provide food for Abuja and Lagos.
“People are not embracing farming because they don’t believe they can make it despite the huge potentials in it.
“Government must provide the necessary political will and incentives to boost the sector to generate jobs and boost the IGR,” he said.
He promised to ensure even development and look for areas of intervention to better the lots of the people in the state.
“The present government is concentrating on the urban centre at the expense of rural centres. That is why people are migrating. There will be so much pressure on the existing infrastructure and create serious crisis in the urban centres.”
