Agriculture
Anambra Govt To Prosecute Agric Loan Defaulters
The Anambra State Government is to prosecute all farmers who failed to pay back the N150 million loan disbursed to them in 2006, the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Chief Godson Ezenagu, announced recently.
Ezenagu told newsmen in Awka that the names of the defaulters would be published before taking them to court.
He said that debtor farmers would be blacklisted and would be barred from any agricultural assistance from the state government.
The commissioner expressed regret that the attitude of the farmers had prevented the government from offering further loan to genuine farmers.
Ezenagu noted with sadness that in spite of all efforts by the government to recover the loan, the affected farmers had remained adamant, adding that legal action had become inevitable.