Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State says the memorandum of understanding MoU signed between the state government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC on ethanol biofuel production, had provided an opportunity for massive employment and wealth creation for the inhabitants of the state.
He said this while conducting round ECOWAS representatives at two cassava demonstration farms at Gangije and Maitsani in Gwandu Local Government Area of the state.
The ECOWAS delegation, alongside Governors from Niger and Benin Republics, were in Birnin Kebbi for a one-week training workshop on Integrated and Secured Pastoralism and Livestock Management in West Africa.
The governor said that the MoU had not only created massive jobs for the people of the state, especially the youth, but it also encouraged production of other crops.
In a remark, the ECOWAS Commissioner, Sekou Sangare, commended Governor Bagudu for improving agricultural production in Kebbi State and increasing the purchasing power of his people.
