Bassi, who spoke during discussions on the report of Committee on Agriculture stressed that the volume of public funds stolen every year could have been deployed to funding agriculture.
The Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources had also called for immediate passage of the Bill for the Establishment of the Nigerian Soil Science Institute which it said was pending in the National Assembly, if the current critical shortage of manpower in the sector must be addressed.
When established, it said the institute when established would provide leadership in regulating the training and professional practice of soil science in the country and address the current critical shortage of manpower in the sector.
It therefore called for and emphasized the need for appropriate review and amendment of the Land Use Act; an issue that has re-echoed repeatedly in the Conference and whose resolution is currently pending.
The Committee also recommended the recreation of Commodity Marketing Boards or Corporations, akin to what obtained in the country in the late 1940s to late 1980s, saying that the first set of commodities to be included in this would be cotton, oil palm, cocoa and groundnuts. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
Thank you Mr Bassi. If the country is not ready to address corruption in the most severe of terms, this conference should disband. Everything that is being proposed will be a waste of time in the presence of corruption which has killed the nation.
ReplyDeleteMR. BASSI, may the ancestors of achalla ibusa (mother's side) and umu-idi(father's side) both in delta state and the almaigthy God in heaven and jesus christ guide and protect u,ur family, ur entire village and every generations that will come down ur line in this life and four lives of urs to come for being an extremist/terrorist against corruption. U are the second most reasonable man in africa after mandela. Keep up the positive thinking againt corruption.
ReplyDeleteAmen. We need people like Mr. BASSI in this country. Yes. Jonathan over to you. Weak man.
DeleteIt is now we and the whole world will know who GEJ is and what stuff is made of, what thwy are all been running from discussing or voicing out, now some one has bell the cat. If we are really serious as a nation. If nothing positive and serious happen on this matter, then we will use JJ Rollings style, then Jona will be included.
ReplyDelete