Lagos Lawmaker, Bonu Sannu, Wants Food Security Taken Seriously.....Says Badagry Can Feed The State If Supported

 

Without a doubt, one of the most dynamic lawmakers in the Lagos State House of Assembly at the moment, is Hon. Bonu Solomon Sannu, the lawmaker representing the good people of Badagry Constituency 1. Just within a year of his first term, he has proven that he is one of the most pro-active legislators the state can boast of. This is why his people do not joke with him. He has exceeded expectations, bringing to their door steps the dividends of democracy in a way they haven’t quite experienced before. Though his primary responsibility is to influence laws that will provide critical social amenities for his people, Honourable Bonu Solomon has also taken it upon himself to personally make available provisions that are outside his core responsibility, which is to help his people enact laws that will address their concerns. And his people all agree that he has done tremendously well for them, and they simply cannot just thank him enough.

 At the 9^th Stake holders neeting held across the state, there was a huge turn out of people who trooped to meet with their hugely admired representative Hon. Bonu and engage him in very meaningful and effective conversation on how to move the constituency forward. At the meeting, the respected lawmaker urged that top priority should be given to food security in the state, saying that this is the only way the future of the state could be guaranteed.

 

Speaking at the secretariat of Olorunda Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Iworo, Badagry, Lagos, Hon. Sannu, identified food insecurity as a multi-faceted challenge requiring the efforts of the government and the people to resolve.

This year’s stakeholders’ meeting is the ninth in the series and it has the theme: ‘Ensuring Food Security for Sustainable Future: Youth Participation and Home-Grown Farming’.

 

 The very likeable and popular Hon Sannu stated that the issue of food security in line with the United Nation’s sustainable development goals of eradication of poverty is paramount to the lawmakers in the assembly. Hear him:

 

“We at the Lagos State House of Assembly are committed to making Lagos a food producing state and not just a consuming state in the agriculture value chain to tackle the present-day reality of food insufficiency.

“Our commitment is exemplified through transformational laws and policy supervision in the agricultural sector,” he said, noting that with the collaboration of the Assembly, the government of the state has made giant strides in the agriculture sector.

 

He listed some of the agricultural initiatives to include the setting up of the 34-hectare Ikorodu Fish.Farm Estate which has the capacity to produce and process 10,000 tons of fish per year partnering with 400 fish farmers in the State.

He mentioned the AGRIC-YES programme and “the Oke-Aro and Gberigbe Pig Farm Estates that currently partners with 1,200 farmers and have the capacity of housing and processing 88,000 mature pigs per annum.

“It is important to reiterate that, on our part as lawmakers, we have also created an enabling environment for farming activities to thrive in the state, particularly through the passage of anti-open grazing of livestock Law in September, 2021.”

 

Offering some solution to the problem, the very amiable and intelligent lawmaker said to achieve food sufficiency, farming capacity needs to be widened while residents should consider animal husbandry.

Stakeholders at the event emphasised that Badagry, being a rural community, has the capacity to produce food for the state and they urged the state government to give necessary assistance to farmers in the area so that they can work optimally and produce food for the state.

The event was attended by traditional rulers, market men and women, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), youths, students and residents of the constituency.