Cede Ministry of Agriculture to states, Oshiomhole tells FG

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has called on the Federal Government to cede the Ministry of Agriculture to the states, arguing that the government at Abuja does not have any reason keeping a ministry of agriculture because it does not have control over land.According to him, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture was a means of diverting public funds to uses other than providing food and other agriculture needs of the Nigerian people.Oshiomhole, who at the delegates conference of the state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), on Wednesday, in Benin City, also called for a review of the revenue allocation formula of the federation to allow states access to more money to finance projects.The revenue allocation formula gives so much money to Abuja and Abuja has far more money than it needs and that is why there is so much leakages there. For every one naira that accrues to the federation, Abuja collects 52 per cent of it, then the states, plus FCT plus the 774 local governments share the remaining 46.4 per cent.Abuja has no business sinking boreholes; where we will spend five million to 10 million sinking a borehole, Abuja will sink borehole for N35 million and it will not even be working, he said.
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