Governor
Nasir El-Rufai,of Kaduna State yesterday said he has created over 125,000
direct jobs in the state within the past nine months. El-Rufai stated this
during his sixth town hall meeting with the people in Saminaka, Lere Local
Government Area of the state. He said the state school feeding programme which
he introduced created at least 85,000 jobs for food vendors, their staff and
supervisors. “The job impact of ongoing interventions is over 125,000 direct
jobs in Kaduna State within less than one year of the APC being in office. The
estimates of these include: School feeding programme: at least 85,000 jobs, including
the vendors, their staff and supervisors. School uniforms:11,100 jobs,
rehabilitation of schools:7,542 jobs, construction of toilets:6,285 jobs, solar
boreholes:5,028 jobs, KASTELEA:2,550 jobs,waste collection:6,700 jobs, Science
and Maths teachers: 2,300 jobs,” he said. The governor added that the state
government is in talks with Dangote and Olam for integrated tomato
agro-industrial projects around Galma Dam. He said Olam has also decided to
build the largest poultry and feed-mill facility in Sub- Saharan Africa in the
state.
El-Rufai,
who was accompanied by the senator representing Kaduna-North senatorial
district, Alhaji Suleiman Hunkuyi and other top government officials on a
police helicopter for aerial view of the state, said operations against
cattle-rustlers, kidnappers and other criminal gangs are continuing in the
affected areas. “Our security agencies have better vehicles and improved
communication infrastructure to respond to threats. Our internal security team,
Operation Yaki, has been active in raiding black spots and preventing crimes,
while responding more rapidly to robberies and other threats to lives and
property.
While
thanking security agencies for their efforts and service to our state, we ask
our religious and community leaders to continue to preach peace and unity,
promote tolerance, discourage hate speech and renew calls for increased
vigilance in all our communities, “he said. He said Stallion Group will build a
10,000-hectare rice farm and mill in Kaduna to reduce the dependence on
imported rice. “Other rice farm and mill projects are being implemented by many
firms to utilize our zero-interest loans around the CBN rice anchor lending
programme,” he added
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