Food Crisis May Hit KELGA – LG Boss

The Caretaker Com
mittee Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Hon Samuel Nwanosike, has expressed concern that the area may experience food crisis by next year.
Nwanosike raised the concern when he received the chairman of Rivers State Amnesty Committee, Mr Kenneth Chinda, in his office at Isiokpo at the weekend.
He said cultists in the area had hijacked the forests meant for farming and food production as their hideout.
According to him, the development has led to the reduction of food production in the whole of Ikwerre Local Government Area.
The Council boss expressed gratitude to the Rivers State Governor; Chief Nyesom Wike for initiating the amnesty programme, even as he hailed the administration’s zero tolerance for criminality.
Similarly, according to investigations by The Tide, the activities of the suspected cultists in the LGA in sabotaging agricultural activities are not limited only at the forests.
It could be recalled that former manager of the state-owned Livestock Farm at Ubima in Kelga Mr Victor Elem while calling for the resuscitation of the farm raised an alarm over vandalism of the farm.
He explained that prior to the time the farm went moribund, it boasted of a good number of livestock in its stables.
Elem regretted the neglect meted to the farm even as he condemned the huge extent of damage that has been visited on the farm by suspected hoodlums.
“You can see that the place is moribund and the corrugated iron sheets have been stolen”, he lamented.
The Tide also gathered that the vandalism was allegedly perpetrated by cultists from the area.
However, a source which asked not to be named told The Tide that with the cultists now embracing the state government’s amnesty, the farm if revamped, would flourish again.