By Kabiru Dogon Daji
Birnin Kebbi
The sole administrator of Koko-Besse local government council of Kebbi state, Alhaji Abubakar Imam Maye, has reiterated his commitment to uplift agriculture and full time involvement of youths in the Stone Age tradition.
He made this known yesterday while addressing newsmen on the activities of his Council, emphasising agriculture, youth empowerment and education as priority areas.
He noted that the entire local government area was blessed with vast arable land suitable for both ranging and cropping, adding that “so all we need to do is to assist our farmers by given them the necessary inputs needed for them to grow more food.”
Similarly, he said the teeming unemployed youth would be mobilsed on self- reliance and engaged in to both dry and rainy season farming, as well as other skills acquisition programmes aimed at improving their living standards.
Maye further disclosed that already the plans had been mapped out on how the programme would take off, saying that “I want to assure our youths that my doors are always open for them to channel their grievances, feeling and predicament, sincerely speaking we will empower them for them to have sense of belonging.”
He, however, stressed that education and health would also be accorded utmost priority by complete overhauling of the two sectors that most structures were in a deplorable condition.