Amosun claims his detractors behind Ogun fake rice pyramid rumour

Governor Ibikunle Amosun has reacted to reports on social media alleging that his administration presented a fake pyramid of rice to deceive people.

The picture of the rice pyramid which had spread on social media showed a pyramid constructed with wood, and held in place by sandbags, before being covered with bags of rice on the outside to replicate a picture of the legendary groundnut pyramids popular in northern Nigeria at one time.

In his comments, the governor described the situation as sad and a deliberate attempt to de-market the state for selfish reasons stating that those behind the Ogun State fake rice rumour are political detractors.

Amosu who spoke through the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Dayo Adeneye, who was at the opening session of the 2018 Media Workshop of the State House Press Corps in Abeokuta with the theme: “The Role of the Media in Peace Building: 2019 in Perspective”, said that it was wrong for anybody to deliberately run down the state.

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He also said the harvest this year will surpass that of last year as the farmers now know that the government, serving as off takers, will buy whatever they produce and sell at N11,000 to the public. “I’m just urging our colleagues; we were able to take you round and you saw for yourselves what obtains, you saw the processes, the farms, you saw the farmers, you saw how grateful they were to this administration for empowering them.

“They were also grateful to the federal government’s programme IFAD, FADAMA for empowering them and helping them to achieve what they have been able to achieve with MITROS RICE. You also saw the processing plant, the rice mill, the bagging process and all that. Some people are just being mischievous because we are approaching election year and they are trying to score cheap political points.

Reacting to reports that also claimed that the Mitros rice was not available in any shop in Ogun State, and no rice farm anywhere nor factory where the rice is being bagged in the state, the Commissioner said the Chairman of the Presidential Task force on Agriculture was on hand recently to verify things for himself.

“The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Chairman of the Presidential Task force on Agriculture came to verify things for themselves.

Rather than encouraging this administration to do more, some political detractors think they can score cheap political points by de-marketing this state and publishing false and fake stories about MITROS RICE,” he said.

 

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