NewsNigeriaPoliticsKebbi Governor Orders Arrest of Sellers, Buyers of Govt Agricultural Resources

Security operatives in Kebbi State have been directed to arrest sellers and buyers of agricultural inputs the government provides free to farmers.

Kebbi State Governor Nasir Idris gave the directive in Bagudo LGA while distributing agricultural inputs to farmers provided free of charge by a member of the House of Representatives, Bagudo/Suru Constituency, Muhammad Bello Ka’oje.

Idris urged those who received farming implements for free to utilize them to improve their yields, especially in irrigation farming.

“Security services are hereby ordered to arrest both sellers and buyers of farming materials provided by the government for agricultural production; you have no reason to sell them.

“The items must not be auctioned by the beneficiaries for monetary benefits for whatever purpose, use them to till the land.

“Kebbi must maintain its position as the vanguard of rice production in Nigeria,” he said.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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