Kwara Assembly scores water ministry low in performance

Date: 2017-12-13

The Kwara State House of Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources has expressed displeasure over the below-expectation performance of the state Ministry of Water Resources in the provision of portable water for residents of Ilorin metropolis due to paucity of funds to the ministry.

To this end, the House Committee has initiated a tripartite meeting between the legislature, the state governor Alhaji AbdulFatah Ahmed and the state Commissioner for Finance Mr Ademola Banu to address the cash backup problem, especially in the area of provision of portable water to the people of Ilorin metropolis.

The chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture and water resources, Hon. Ishaku Aliyu Adams gave this indication in ilorin,during the ministerial budget defense by the state commissioner for Water and Resources , Barrister Rasaq Akorede, before the committee.

The law maker described the water sector as an important one, which according to him, must not be neglected by the state government, and expressed confidence that the parley would address cash backing problems to the ministry.

He enjoined the state government to complete the first phase of Ilorin reticulation project by the first quarter of next year and provide palliative measure of putting water tankers in strategic places within the metropolis to cushion the effect of water problem among residents of the state capital.

On agriculture, the House Committee expressed satisfaction with the performance of the state Ministry of Agriculture's 77.6 per cent implementation of the 2017 budget,especially on the implementation of Off Taker Demand Driven Agriculture in which N 1 billion was accessed and disbursed to soya beans,maize, poultry and fish farmers.

Hon. Ishaku said that federal government tractor hiring and implement scheme,in which many states including Kwara state, keyed in, would soon arrive the state for the benefit of farmers.

The Committee expressed satisfaction that the N5.6bn budgetary allocation for agriculture in 2018, will have N3bn dedicated for procurement of fertilizer at subsidized rate of N5,700 per bag and procurement of N1bn improved soya beans and maize seedlings to farmers and consumers in the State.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ayinde Oyepitan     Muslim Cementary     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Oni Adebayo     Kehinde Boyede     Emir Of Kano     Emmanuel Bello     Gani Saadu     Peter Amogbonjaye     Folashade Omoniyi     Umaru Saro     S.O. Opowoye     Tafida Of Kaiama     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Overland     Egbejila     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Abdulmajeed Wahab     KWASAA     Bolaji Nagode     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Olaosebikan     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Tafida Of Ilorin     Aliyu Umar     Azeez Salawu     Olugbense     Ethical College     Eghe Igbinehin     Sheikh Ariyibi     Buhari     Timothy Akangbe     BIR     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Yoruba     Binta Sulyman     Valsolar     Halimah Perogi     Cornelius Adebayo     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Pius Abioje     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Muhammadu Buhari     Mahee Abdulkadir     Susan Modupe Oluwole     ASUU     Bukola Saraki     Tope Daramola     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Lawal Olohungbebe     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Ibrahim Abiodun     Ijakadi     Face Masks     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Elese Of Igbaja     Musbau A. Akanji     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Kulende     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     FERMA     Labaeka     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Olatomiwa Williams     Kolawole Akande     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Alabere     NULGE     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Frootify     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Isaac Gbenle     Sulyman Tejidini     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Lotus Bank     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Ramat Oganija     NIRSAL     Read With Me     Offa     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Presidential Election     Okin Malt     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Isiaka Oniwa     Law School Scholarship     Bola Sagaya     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Guber Aspirant     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Students Union Government     Abubakar Suleiman     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Yomi Adeboye     Amuda Musbau     Isin     Dairo Kunle Paul     A.O. Belgore     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Face Masks     Mujtabah Bature     Maryam Nurudeen     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Garment Factory     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Ilota     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Ndakene     Garba Idris Ajia     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Bature Bello     Ilorin Durbar     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Ariyo     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Vasolar     Saidu Kawu     Adesoye College     Danhawa     Hauwa Nuru     Saka Saadu     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Bayer AG     Shao     Rafiu Ibrahim     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     ER-KANG     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Oluwole Dupe     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Wole Oke     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Kwara Liberation Group     Oye Tinuoye     T And K FOODS     Tunde Akanbi     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Balogun Ajikobi     Adijat Adebiyi     JAMB     GANZY     Shuaibu Yaman