By Abubakar labaran Kafanchan
Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has tasked the people of Southern Kaduna to shun all tendencies that will hinder actualising meaningful change in their lives. Audu gave the task on Saturday in Kafanchan, Jema’a local government area of Kaduna state, while addressing representatives of diff erent associations and ethnics groups of area during a meeting tagged, memory and inter-group dialogue in southern Kaduna, “reconciliation through wealth creation” organised buy and NGO, Kukah Centre.
He said the people of southern Kaduna had been blessed with abundant fertile soil that can produce varieties of cash and food crops which are in high demand all over the world including: ginger, turmeric, cashew nuts, castor oil, maize among numerous others. Th e minster then revealed that the federal government would construct extension offi ces in all the local governments in the country, and re-design the Bank of Agriculture and “provides seeds and loans to farmers.”
He commended the founder of Kukah Centre, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, for his imitative in organising the dialogue, and advised the people of southern Kaduna to avoid been weak and foolish, as it would make them suff er poverty, hard work, according to him, will make them meet their needs. Earlier, in remarks, Bishop Kukah observed that his strong conviction to support the people reconcile through wealth creation prompt him to look for ways that people would come together irrespective of their diff erences to work towards improving their condition of living. Kukah advised the people of southern Kaduna to start thinking and asking themselves questions on how to improve the area in meaningful development. He noted that the people are plague with poverty, and the recent crisis had added backwardness to them which should be avoided with the understanding that it “only aff ects the poor, for the rich do not participate.”
