5 Kogi communities benefit from ActionAid projects

Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has inaugurated nine projects worth N36 million funded by the ActionAid Nigeria across five rural communities in two local government areas of the state.
The projects include garri processing factories, maize milling factory, block making industry and bread making factory spread across Aku/ Osaragada, Fulani settlement and Osara community all in Adavi local government areas of the state.
Also commissioned included maize and rice milling factories at Okpakpata as well as maize and garri processing factories at Ofuloko all in Igalamela local government area of the state.
Governor Bello commended ActionAid Nigeria for the projects and assured that government would give the needed support to ensure the sustenance of the projects.
The governor, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Mr Edward David Onoja, urged the benefitting communities to protect the projects and ensure they utilise them judiciously.
“The intervention by ActionAid would enable the beneficiaries improve the value of their agricultural produce through processing and earn more money than they used to do,” he said.
While advising the youth in the communities to engage in productive activities and keep off all forms of criminal vices, especially kidnapping and armed robberies, the governor assured that before the month of December this year, a lot of projects executed by the state government would be commissioned.
Earlier, ActionAid Nigeria Country Director, Mrs Ene Obi, said the initiative was aimed at empowering women and youth to eradicate poverty and also address the problem of violent extremism prevalent amongst youths in the state.
Mrs Obi who was represented by the Project Manager in charge of Humanitarian and Resilience, Mr Ipoade Omilaju, revealed that the various interventions carried out by ActionAid in the state had helped in addressing violent crimes and enhanced peace.

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