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The Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS)

Thursday 9 June 2022

Presidency worries over farmers’ enumerators

*FMARD promises payment soon


The office of the Vice President (VP), Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has expressed disappointment over the prolonged payment to the thirty-five thousand youth enumerators that had registered and captured farmers’ data across the states of the federation, even after the Economic Financial Corruption Commission ( EFCC) investigations had found no sharp practices against the exercise.

 Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to the President on Food Security Matters, and head, Project for Agriculture coordination and Execution (PACE) under the office of the Vice President, Dr. Andrew Kwasari said this while reacting to why these enumerators were yet to be paid after verification of their jobs, saying the payment should have been completed if not the interjection of EFCC that put every activities on hold to carry out an investigation.

Also, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) through the Director of Extension, Dr. Frank Sutamari has  said everything is  completed from his table, and only remain the minister to approve payment for the rest  batches through Government Integrated Financial Management System (GIFMS), saying the directive from the EFCC to stop every activities regarding the exercise took so long, otherwise the payment would have been completed to all enumerators.  

Dr. Sutamari stressed that the ministry and the office of PACE are both passionate about the payment of these youths, which he attested with a commendation letter given to him by the enumerators being recognition of his concern and action to ensure payment, adding that there is no course for alarm as their  money is intact and payment would soon commence to the remaining batches.

Over 35,000 youth enumerators who are engaged in 2020 to capture the data of Nigeria’s farmers to ensure accountability in the distributions of agricultural inputs subsidy are yet to be paid even though some payment had been paid to about six batches until abrupt stop of the exercise by EFCC.

The youths had taken to the street to demand for their payment as some of them have even threatened to take the matter to court saying they would not want a situation where the money is being diverted for another thing especially in the face of the coming 2023 election which the process had already started with presidential and other primaries.

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It was stated in the petition titled ‘’ justice for the thirty five thousand Nigeria Youth’’ that the FMARD had engaged under the project tagged agriculture for food and job plan (AFJP) which is part of the economic sustainability plan of President Mohammadu Buhari, but being chaired by the VP, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo who we gathered had written several letters on why the payment was still on hold after EFCC clearance.

The petition claimed that some of them have not been paid as some batches had received 50% payment after verification of the registered farmers and their farmlands across the country with an agreement of five hundred naira (N500.00) per survey. 

An angry anonymous told us that some powerful entities in the government had initiated the EFCC interrogation of the exercise thinking something indicting could be found especially against the SSA to the president on food security matters and former Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Mohammad Sabo Nanono.

Our source added that this strong group had got an approval to disburse fertilizer inputs worth of thirty billion naira to farmers through the conventional ways which was queried by the Federal Ministry of Finance on reason of farmers’ data for accountability, just as the office of PACE being headed by the SSA on food security matters to the President also advised that those beneficiaries  must be identified through scientific process with the size of their farms as criterion to benefit.

17 comments:

  1. I hope its true not just mere words....we are tired of hearing this "soon" of a thing...

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  2. It is disgusting, we are tired of hearing this soon,, it's not fair @ all may be because is not their children that done the exercise.. They would have been paid since.. Allah is seeing them..

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  3. Fmard only God can judge you .

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  4. Please pay us our entitlement as soon as possible

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  5. All what people in government positions are good at is embezzlement. But we are not letting go of our hard earned money.we are not criminals like some of those government officials but we law abiding citizens.

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  6. Please pay us our money we are tied of soon soon soon soon soon

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  7. Soon is the most abusive word used by Nigeria Government.
    Just try and reach to them and let them know that Enumerators are tired of hearing SOON. Let payment takes effect immediately

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  8. Please let them pay us ooo we will never let go of our hard earned money, under the hash weather, under the sun. This is not npower money, we worked for our money. Let them pay us we hate hearing soon.

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  9. Pay us our money

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  10. Pay enumerators plz

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  11. Pay enumerators plsssss

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  12. This is fake news,fmardpace are afraid of The legal action taken by enumerators nationwide that's is the reason for this fabrications, my fellow enumerators let us not relent our efforts towards making sure our hard earn money is been paid we most take fmardpace to court we must not relax because of the fake news

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  13. Pay enumerators

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  14. Allah we pray for your involvement, to this issues nd to collect your money from this hungry parents those that no pity their children. Amin

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  15. It is long over due everyday with different stories, why our leaders heartless

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  16. This is Grammar just pay us we are tired of this please.

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