From INIOBONG SUNDAY, UYO
As the #EndBadGovernance protests grow, a diaspora Non Governmental Organisation, NGO, based in the United States, US, has launched agricultural intervention programmes aimed at creating jobs for the unemployed youths and addressing the challenges of food insufficiency in the country.
The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Idara Medical Outreach and Aid IMOHA, Lady Idara Enyong, had while signing the Memorandum of Understanding ,MoU, in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, disclosed that her diaspora foundation has invested N7.3 billion in agricultural intervention project on the outskirts of Uyo, the State capital.
She explained that the project was borne out of her determination to invest in agriculture to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths and to address the challenges of food insecurity in the country.
“We are spearheading the use of agriculture to combat hunger and transform the lives of the people”, she stressed.
Welcoming the initiative, a chieftain and leader of the All Progressives Congress,APC, in Nsit Ibom local government area, Obonganwan Dorathy Okure, has applauded the foundation for being in the vanguard of dousing the prevailing tension in the land.
She, therefore, called for more private sector-driven enterprise to galvanise agriculture and other socio-economic potentials to reposition the country in line with President Bola Tinubu’s vision.
“IMOHA, an NGO, is set to revolutionise agriculture and farming practices in the the State, and has proposed an agro venture involving 30 hectares of cassava cropping and the deployment of internationally sourced funding to bolster the sector, and grow the health of the populace.
More than N7.3 billion, she said, has so far been earmarked for the project, and efforts are on hand to secure appropriate land titles for kick- off of the multi-billion food and agriculture value- chain project.
Using the moment to explain the NGO’s vision, she assured of it dedication to humanitarian and survival causes as well as solving the needs of the disadvantaged and underprivileged in the society.
“Good incentives from governments in support of agriculture such as grant, would enable investors invest in food production to help drive away hunger, poverty, food shortages, poor health and avoidable sufferings occasioned by dire food deficits as presently experienced in the country”, Enyong stressed.
