The Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger
Delta,
Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd.) is collaborating with
various national and international groups on ways to train more beneficiaries
of the Amnesty programme on agriculture for job creation, food security and
wealth creation.
General
Boroh who is also the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty made
this known at a meeting with the Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of Israel Nadav D. Goren in
Abuja. He said that the Amnesty office is working in line with President
Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that Nigerians should shift
attention from oil to non-oil income especially agriculture in order to revamp
the Nigerian economy.
One area that has remained of utmost importance to the
Presidential Amnesty Office is Agriculture. This is in line with the
presidential initiative on exploring available potentials in the sector to grow
the national economy. The Amnesty vigorously pursuing partnerships with relevant
agro allied groups to among other things encourage the youth of the Niger Delta
to embrace commercial agriculture. Some of the key partners include the Federal
Ministry of Agriculture and the National Bio-Technology Development Center.
Delegates have been empowered by the office to begin fishery, poultry and crop
farming while thousands of delegates yet to be trained are now being deployed
into Agriculture.
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