By Hamidu Sabo
Senator Abu Ibrahim representing Katsina South has distributed assistance worth N100 million to the victims of gunmen attack at Sabuwa and Faskari local government areas in Katsina state.
The items distributed include 200 bags of rice, 200 mats N20 million naira cash assistance 200 Jerry cans of Olga cooking oil and 300 tillage machines for farming.
The Senator while distributing the assistance to the victims on Sunday at Maigora village said, it became imperative to assist the victims with all the necessary tools to ease their suffering in good time for the unfortunate incident.
He said the scarcity of tillage cattle were ripe in the areas as residents reportedly sold their cattle following armed attacks and the alarming cases of cattle rustling.
Senator Ibrahim who was elected under APC said the gesture was aimed to help the victims resumed normal farming activities in their areas.
He said: “These people are predominantly farmers who rely heavily on using their bulls for cultivation. But sadly enough, high incidence of cattle rustling and the recent armed attacks has left them without their cherished bulls.
“Our intervention is to bridge the gap that may have been caused by the theft of their cattle because many of them may not be able to resume their life-long occupation of farming.”
He said the gesture was to help the victims resumed farming with
relative ease and that arrangements had been concluded to distribute similar machines to some select farmers across Katsina south senatorial district of the state.
Ibrahim, a member of the Committee on Agriculture, stressed the need for the state government to accord more priority to agriculture
“because farming still remains the larger employer of labour and the mainstay of our economy.”
He also commissioned a multi-million naira Islamiyya school he built and donated to Sabon Layin Maigora community of Faskari council area, for the propagation of Islam.
One of the beneficiaries, Malam Bala Danhabu, lauded Ibrahim for the gesture and expressed the optimism that the gift would help farmers to continue their farming activities with ease.