Ministry prays for technocrat as minister

The officials of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) may have been praying for a technocrat as minister based on the experiences from the immediate past one who they claimed did not do much professionally to assist the sector. FoodFarmNews reliably gathered.

Sources among the workers confirmed to foodfarmnews on condition of anonymity that they would prefer someone in the mould of former minister of agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina who is presently the African Development Bank (AfDB) president.

Foodfarmnews gathered that officials of the ministry preferred an expert who is very familiar with the sector’s challenges and having ability to proffer appropriate solution that would give intervention to farmers and other stakeholders at the value chains of the sector saying that someone who has grasp for commercial agriculture and in-depth knowledge of agriculture as a business with capacity to attract foreign funding for the sector is what the ministry would prefer.

Already the all the nominee’s names for ministerial appointment sent to the upper chambers of the national assembly under the 9^th Assembly led by Sen. Ahmed Ibrahim lawal has been approved, but are yet to be assigned portfolio by President Mohammadu Buhari.