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Stakeholders Meeting: Lagos Lawmaker, Bonu Sannu, Harps On Food Security …Says We Must Encourage Home-Grown Farming
A lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Bonu Solomon Sannu, representing Badagry Constituency 1, has emphasised the need for food security in the state, saying that this is the only way the future of the state could be guaranteed.
Sannu spoke at this year’s edition of the annual stakeholders meeting organised by the lawmakers of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday October 11, 2024, which held simultaneous in the 40 constituencies with renewed commitments to boost food security and sufficiency in the state.
Speaking at the secretariat of Olorunda Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Iworo, Badagry, Lagos, Hon. Sannu, identified food insecurity as a multi-faceted challenge requiring the efforts of the government and the people to resolve.
This year’s stakeholders’ meeting is the ninth in the series and it has the theme: ‘Ensuring Food Security for Sustainable Future: Youth Participation and Home-Grown Farming’.
Hon Sannu stated that the issue of food security in line with the United Nation’s sustainable development goals of eradication of poverty is paramount to the lawmakers im the assembly.
“We at the Lagos State House of Assembly are committed to making Lagos an producing state and not just a consuming state in the agriculture value chain to tackle the present-day reality of food insufficiency.
“Our commitment is exemplified through transformational laws and policy supervision in the agricultural sector,” he said noting that with the collaboration of the Assembly, the government of the state has made giant strides in the agriculture sector.
He listed some of the agricultural initiatives to include the setting up of the 34-hectare Ikorodu Fish.Farm Estate which has the capacity to produce and process 10,000 tons of fish per year partnering with 400 fish farmers in the State.
He mentioned the AGRIC-YES
programme and “the Oke-Aro and Gberigbe Pig Farm Estates that currently partners with 1,200 farmers and have the capacity of housing and processing 88,000 mature pigs per annum.
“It is important to reiterate that, on our part as lawmakers, we have also created an enabling environment for farming activities to thrive in the state,
particularly through the passage of anti-open grazing of livestock Law in September, 2021.”
He said to achieve food sufficiency, farming capacity needs to be widened while residents should consider animal husbandry.
Stakeholders at the event emphasised that Badagry, being a rural community, has the capacity to produce food for the state and they urged the state government to give necessary assistance to farmers in the area so that they can work optimally and produce food for the state.
The event was attended by traditional rulers, market men and women, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), youths, students and residents of the constituency.
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