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Nasir Urges Youths To Embrace Farming
Justice Mamman Nasir, a former President of the Court of Appeal, has advised youths to embrace agriculture to enhance food production.
Nasir gave the advice in Malumfashi, Katsina State, last Sunday at the launching of the sale of government subsidised grains.
He urged all tiers of government to increase their commitment to agriculture and to pursue empowerment programmes with all sense of responsibility.
Nasir, who is Galadiman Katsina and District Head of Malumfashi, urged the youth to return to their family farms and till the land to grow more food for local consumption and export.
In his address, Alhaji Mansur Rabi-u-Banki, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the local government, said bags of grains had been distributed to all the political wards of the area.
He said the grains would be sold at half the market prices to the public and explained that a measure (mudu) of maize would cost N80.
Rabi-u-Banki called on the people of the area to live in peace and support PDP to win the forthcoming local government elections.
He said the sale of grains was meant to complement the state government’s initiative aimed at reducing hardship among the people.
He gave an assurance that the sale of subsidised fertiliser and other farming inputs would soon start in the area.
Meanwhile, he said his administration had erected 350 electricity poles and other electrical equipment to restore electricity supply to some communities.
The chairman also said that the council had rehabilitated 70 damaged boreholes and constructed 22 new ones to enhance water supply in the area.
He said the council had designed youth empowerment schemes, including the disbursement of interest-free loans to 200 youths for the operation of business ventures.
The chairman said the council would engage health technology graduates and holders of National Certificate in Education and deploy them to hospitals and schools.
Our correspondent reports that the launch of the sales was attended by traditional rulers, political office holders, government officials, politicians, among others.