ABUJA — The House of Representatives, on Thursday has urged the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to send enumerators to Kebbi State for the purpose of registering the farmers as it faulted the Federal Government over the number of farmers said to have been registered in Kebbi State under the ongoing nationwide registration.
The House mandated its Committee on Agricultural Production and Services to inspect the data centre, where the registration of farmers is being undertaken.
The decision is sequel to the unanimous adoption of a motion moved by Shehu Koko, titled, ‘Victimisation of the People of Kebbi State in the Ongoing Nationwide Registration of Farmers’.
The committee was also mandated to interface with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, to “ascertain the criterion used to appoint the enumerators that registered the farmers as well as the fertiliser subsidy regime for farmers in Nigeria.”
Koko noted that the ongoing registration of farmers was for the purpose of fertiliser subsidy for the 2021 farming season.
