Sokoto Fadama 111 coordinator, others to receive National Assembly award on rural development

In his mandate to ensure rural community development through legislative performance of oversight function,

the House committee on Rural Development at the National assembly in partnership with Absolute Security

and Consultancy will be giving award of merit to the Sokoto State fadama 111, Alhaji Muhammed Barshair

Mustapha at International conference centre, Garki. 

 

In a letter signed by the Seminar/ Project Consultant, Chief Yomi Charles, and sent to the state coordinator,

Alhaji Muhammed Barshair Mustapha, it was stated that the performance of the Sokoto state Fadama111

project in the North west region has been conspicuously noticed with the need to reward stating “we wish to

inform you of your organization’s nomination for the award of outstanding fadama 111 in North-West Geo

political zone. This is based on its exemplary contributions to rural community assessment by the committee 

consultants.

The World Bank-Federal Government Fadama 111 project has rated Sokoto State as one of the well

performed states just as  it is already warming up to join in the new phase tagged “ Fadama 111-Additional

Financing (AF)” with effective take off in February 2014.

Sokoto state governor, Alhaji (Dr.) Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has justified his positive comment in the 

impact of using fadama 111 to meet the plight of rural farmers at  project launch in April 6^th, 2010 by his 

Execellency  saying “ I have no doubt in my mind that the design of this project is unigue as it has shifted

from the usual upstream activities in Fadama areas to include some downstream activities. For long, farmers 

have been suffering from glut, inaccessibility of fadama areas for ease of movement of input and output, lack 

of market information to mention a few”

The commitment of His Execellency and local government chairmen through prompt  payment of counterpart

fund to the project have greatly assisted in achieving the dream of the World Bank-Federal Government

project for the development of rural communities and agriculture in the state.

The award ceremony is expected to come along in a 2 day National Rural Development summit slated for

9^th-10^th which is aimed at harnessing opinions, views and technical inputs from rural development experts,

government agencies and nongovernmental with a view to coming out with a proper framework for

community and rural development in the country.