…Urges Gov. Oborevwori To Prioritize Sector For Employment, Revenue Generation
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye
Delta Environmentalist Activists and development advocate, Comrade Mulade Sheriff, has called on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to adopt a pragmatic approach towards the industrialization of Delta state through Agriculture.
He maintained that leaders all over the world now adopt strategies to harness resources deposited in their countries for more infrastructural development, job creation and economic growth which he noted will definitely translate into wealth creation.
He stated that Delta State cannot be an exception, especially as a state richly endowed with human, capital and natural resources that are keys to unlocking the greatness of the every society.
Mulade, a Development Advocate and the Ibe-Serimowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-west LGA called on the State Governor to industrialise Delta state using its agricultural and aqua-cultural endowments, adding that Delta State is greatly endowed with arable land and marine resources that can turn the State into a food basket for local consumption and create revenues via exports while also achieving the aim of diversifying from an oil-dependent economy in the long run.
The Ijaw nation Chief noted that adopting an agro-based industrialization strategy would go a long way to creating wealth for the State’s teeming unemployed youths and women.
“By engaging them, it will reduce the rate of unemployment and food scarcity, while boosting food sufficiency and its affordability gears towards reducing the poverty index of the State.”
Mulade said that industrialization of the State through agriculture and aqua-culture would create opportunities for youths and women, and curtail the wastage of idle human resources and turn them into assets that can contribute their quota to the growth and development of the State.
According to him, Agro-based industrialization will help to reduce the insecurity challenges and criminal tendencies and immorality prevalent in the society. He says, an idle mind is the devil’s workshop, hence when the youths and women are meaningfully engaged, it will improve peace and reduce anti-social behaviors like armed robbery, cultism, thuggery amongst others, and that will attract more investors into the State.”
He said apart from crude oil, the many resources in the riverine areas of the State are greatly untapped especially in the aqua cultural sector,suggesting that the potentials of the unemployed youths in the creeks can be tapped thereby turning the coastal areas into exporting zones of seafoods and revenue generation.
He lamented that the failure of the State government to meaningfully engage the next generation could amount to societal devastation that would be difficult to recover from as the negative impact would be disastrous. He therefore appealed to the Oborevwori led administration to prioritize the industrialization of the State through agriculture and aquaculture, as Delta has a lot to benefit in the long run.
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