The Senate has said that it would support Atlantic Africa Gulf of Guinea Fisheries AAGF, a Greek Consortium on improved fish production and processing in the country.
This is in a bid to diversify the economy.
Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo Agege said this when the group visited him at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.
The project is to kick start from the Niger Delta geopolitical zone to spread to other geopolitical zones in the country.
The University of Patras, Greece will train 2, 500 persons for a start, build state of the art processing plant in Nigeria as well as trollers that could go as far as 200 nautical miles where canoes cannot reach.
Omo-Agege, who was delighted with the initiative said that the senate would give the consortium the needed support because according to him, it fitted into President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda of lifting over 100 million people out of poverty.
Earlier, Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant on Niger Delta Affairs to the President said that his office was working on oil alternative economy and economic diversification in the Niger Delta and the economy of Nigeria.
