Minister Lai claims Buhari’s govt has created 7m jobs in Agric sector alone

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has created millions of jobs through its various programmes cutting across many sectors.

According to him, the current administration has created over seven million jobs in the agriculture sector alone.

A statement released by the Special Assitant to the Minister, Segun Adeyemi, on Sunday, quoted the Federal Government’s spokesman as making the claim when he spoke at the 6th Graduation Ceremony of the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI), founded by former Rivers First Lady Dame Judith Amaechi, in Port Harcourt on Saturday.

“In Agriculture, for example, this administration has created over 7 million jobs. When the administration assumed office in May 2015, about 5 million farmers were engaged in rice production. Thanks to the administration’s Anchor Borrowers Programme, the number of farmers engaged in rice production today stands at 12.2 million. These are verifiable facts, not fiction,” he said.

Mohammed said 69,736 jobs have been created in the Power, Works and Housing Sector, while the administration’s National Social Investment Programmes have created at least 200,000 jobs, in addition to empowering 500,000 others under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).

“The Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has created 69,736 jobs (direct and indirect) across the country. The Power Sector projects created 1,740 jobs, the Works Sector created 38,391 jobs while the Housing Sector created 29,605 jobs,” he said.

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The Minister also said the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, through which 6.4 million school children in 33,981 schools across 20 states are being fed with one meal a day, has created jobs for 61,352 cooks.

He commended Dame Amaechi for establishing the ESI programme, which is an entrepreneurial and skills acquisition programme for youths and women of the Niger Delta, saying such programmes complement the Federal Government’s efforts to provide jobs for the citizens.

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