Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo of Kogi State has urged the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) to support his administration to combat insecurity, improve agriculture and food security, fast track land reforms and support development in other critical sectors using existing space technology and innovative capabilities of the agency.
The governor’s spokesperson, Ismail Isah on Tuesday said Governor Ododo made the appeal during a meeting with the Director General of NASRDA, Dr. Mathew Olumide Adepoju on Monday.
The statement said Ododo assured that the state government is committed to ensuring partnership with NASRDA to improve the state’s Geographic Information System to facilitate land reforms, promote agriculture and food sufficiency, security of lives and property and other critical sectors of the state’s economy.
The governor, according to his spokesperson, said the state is endowed with technology and innovative potentials available at NASRDA, and appealed to assist the state in achieving the objectives agreed upon in the Memorandum of Understanding between the agency and the state government signed late last year in Lokoja.
The Director General of NASRDA, Dr. Mathew Olumide Adepoju commended Governor Ododo for improving infrastructural facilities and other achievements recorded within one year of his administration in Kogi state.
He thanked the Governor for adopting space technology as a way of combating insecurity and promoting development in different sectors of the state’s economy, assuring that the partnership between NASRDA and the Kogi state government will be sustained in the interest of the country and the people of Kogi state.
