Governor Mohammed Umar Bago has announced that Niger State does not rely on the monthly allocation from the federal account to live.
Bago made this statement when opening a stakeholder town hall meeting on state issues in Minnesota.
Bago noted that with sources of water and four hydroelectric dams in the state, Niger should not be moaning about hunger and instead act as a food basket for Nigeria.
According to him:
“Niger State Government doesn’t need the monthly FAAC allocation from the Federal Government because we are not poor and are producing, which is our secret.
“Many people have invested in Niger State for the next five years and we even had to defer a bilateral agreement with the United Arab Emirate’s Dubai until next year since Nigeria cannot feed itself now.”
The governor also stated that each child engaged to work in the one hundred thousand greenhouses placed at the state’s Airport City project will get a minimum pay of N500,000.
He said:
“Under the greenhouse project, the Niger State Government will employ one million youths, comprising males and females, which will assist in addressing the problem of unemployment as well as provide jobs to the teeming unemployed.”
Bago also authorised the release of the N20,000 pay award for all categories of government officials, as well as additional N2 billion in scholarship allowances for students in tertiary institutions across the state.
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