The state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Hon. Kehinde Ayoola, in a statement informed that the sanitation exercise would hold between the hours of 6:00am and 9:00am and there would be total restriction of human and vehicular movement during the exercise except those on essential duties.

According to the statement, all the Local Government Council Heads are directed  to ensure compliance in their respective domains, as it was expected that roads would be blocked to refrain movements.

The statement also directed Directors of Environment Health Services in the 33 Local Governments and 35 Local Council Development Areas (LCDA) within the State to monitor the exercise as a matter of duty.

Ayoola, however enjoined shop owners, market men and women, security operatives, Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN),Tricycle Owners and Operators Association of Nigeria (TOOAN), Association of Commercial Motorcycle Riders of Nigeria (ACOMMORAN) and the general public to comply with the Environmental Exercise and clean up their surroundings

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The governor made this known while inaugurating the 2018 farming season, fertiliser sales and distribution of tractors in Minna, the state capital.

According to him, the measure would ensure food security in the state and the nation at large.

“The state government in its deliberate efforts toward boosting agricultural mechanisation activities has procured 130 tractors valued at N2.2 billion”.

Bello said that the equipment would be distributed to genuine farmers at 25 per cent subsidy, adding that the state government would soon take delivery of another set of 100 tractors through the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) programme.

He, also disclosed further that the state government had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Machine Equipment Consortium Africa (MECA) and Tractor Owners and Operators Association of Nigeria (TOOAN) to manage the tractors until full payments were made by beneficiaries.

The governor hinted that his administration had also procured 50 rice threshers for free distribution to farmers’ cooperative societies and unions to reduce post-harvest loss in rice production.

“We need to encourage all-season farming.

“To this end, we are intensifying partnership with some Chinese firms to utilise the 17 existing irrigation sites in the state, while developing new ones,’’ he said.

Bello said that government had also collaborated with Tak Fertliser Company, to secure 15,000 metric tonnes of NPK 20:10:10 fertilisers for the 25 local government areas in the state.

Warning that the fertilisers must be sold at government-approved price of N5, 500 per bag, the governor noted that anybody caught selling above this price would face the law.

In his remarks, the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Malam Haruna Dukku, said that government was determined to achieve self-sufficiency in food production and employment generation.

Alhaji Shehu Galadima, Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in the state, lauded the state government for the gesture, just as he promised that farmers would put the tractors into good use.

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