The Osun state Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Mr Adedayo Adewole disclosed this at a meeting of the Project Implementation Committee (PIC) in Osogbo, the state capital.

Adedayo explained that the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment, in conjunction with Agricultural Traders Welfare Association (ATWA), would be executing the project in the state.

According to the Commissioner, the project is a fallout of the economic and investment summit organised by the state government in November 2019 and targeted at boosting the economy of the state.

He said apart from the fact that the project upon implementation would boost the economy of Osun, it would also boost the business of fish farmers and marketers in the state and its environs .

Earlier, the representative of the PIC, Dr Joseph Okeke, lauded the state government for promoting discussion of the economic transformation of the state and Nigeria in general through agriculture and agricultural value chain.

Okeke, who also doubles as the National President of ATWA, noted that the project was targeted towards economic diversification by the Federal Government in the area of specialised agricultural market.

“It is also geared toward job creation, enhancing economic activities and facilitating exportation of Nigerian commodities”, he added.

The committee, comprising of the project facilitator, Dr Gabriel Eniola, Osun Fish Farmers Association Chairman, Mr Tope Ogundipe and Osun Commissioner for Lands and Physical Planning, Mr Nathaniel Agunbiade among others later inspected the site.

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The inmates were set free by the Chief Judge of the state, Mrs Mosunmola Dipeolu, who visited the prisons in Ijebu Ode and Sagamu towns of the state.

Justice Dipeolu, also warned those who regained freedom to be good ambassadors of their family and the state in general.

She noted that the development was aimed at improved justice delivery in Ogun and part of measures to decongest prisons in the state.

Some of the persons freed after the documentation and review of the level of the crime they committed were those awaiting trials for a long time.

One of them was a 45-year-old father of five, Oluwatosin Seriki, who was charged with robbery and had been awaiting trial since 2011.

The Chief Judge, who was accompanied on the visit by the Director of Public Prosecution, as well as some judges and magistrates in the Ogun, however warned the residents of the state against stigmatising the freed persons.

Dipeolu hinted further that the state government would establish courts at various prisons across the state.

She averred that this would ensure effective dispensation of justice, quality service delivery, and decongestion of prisons in the state.

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