The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has
accused the Federal Government of falsehood over claims of lifting 4.2 million
Nigerians from poverty.
HURIWA said claims by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Mohammed Abubakar that 4,205,576 Nigerians have been lifted out of
poverty in the last two years was a “lie from the pit of hell.”
The minister was reported to have said his ministry’s
strategic policies and programmes including Economic Recovery and Growth Plan
(ERGP) 2017-2020 of the current administration, have seen agriculture as the
alternative to oil for meaningful diversification of the economy.
Abubakar, who stated this in Abuja while observing this
year’s World Food Day, themed, ‘Our Actions Are Our Future. Better Production,
Better Nutrition, A Better Environment And A Better Life,’ noted that
investment in agriculture can guarantee food security with the potential to be
a major contributor to job creation and save foreign exchange required for food
imports.
He had said: “Our various empowerment initiatives along
production, processing and marketing of agricultural commodities, we have
lifted a total of 4,205,576 Nigerians out of poverty in the last two years,
this is going to continue as part of Mr. President’s promise to lift 100
million Nigerians out of poverty within the next 10 years. In the area of
capacity-building, the minister maintained that a total of 2,205,576
farmers/youths/women were trained and empowered on different agricultural value
chains.”
Reacting, HURIWA said the minister’s remark was a mere
political figment of his imagination.
In a statement by its Coordinator, HURIWA said the minister
was sounding sycophantic to please his political master and avoid the fate that
befell his predecessor recently dismissed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to HURIWA: “The claims by the Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar that the
federal government has lifted 4,205,576 Nigerians out of poverty in the last
two years through its various agricultural policies, is a comprehensive assault
to honesty and amounts to the worship of the goddess of falsehood.
“The mere political figment of imagination of the minister
of AGRICULTURE who is sounding sycophantic to please his political master and
avoid the fate that befell his predecessor recently dismissed by President
Muhammadu Buhari.
“Publish the names of the citizens and their exact locations
who he claimed to have lifted out of poverty just as the Rights group said the
Minister even contradicted himself when in that same speech he acknowledged the
devastating impacts to farming productivity by the heightened state of
insecurity in the Country.”
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