Governor Umar Namadi of Jigawa State has urged the federal government to accelerate the completion of the Hadejia Valley irrigation project.
Namadi made the call during the flag-off of the National Wheat Development Programme being supported by the federal government in Hadejia Local Government of the state on Saturday.
He said the irrigation project, which started about 40 years ago during the Shagari administration, was meant to achieve improved irrigation farming but has yet to achieve its full potential.
According to the governor, the Hadejia Valley project was still less than 25 per cent completed after almost four decades.
“Let me take this opportunity to urge the federal government to accelerate the completion of the Hadejia Valley irrigation project with a potential irrigable area of over 25,000 hectares and a capacity to significantly deliver the food security objective of President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda,” he said.
Namadi prayed that the Tinubu administration would make history by completing the project 100 per cent.
