Members of the Union of Fishermen and Seafood Sellers (UFSD) within the nation have known as on the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to allocate lands which can function city agriculture and multipurpose centres.
The members of the Union made the attraction in a letter addressed to the Minister and made out there to Journalists in Kaduna on Saturday.
Nationwide President of UFSD, Alhaji Sani Usman Rilwanu, revealed that the physique has utilized for a parcel of land across the FCT, by the Federal Capital Land Administration (AGIS), which was acknowledged with reference No MISC 150735 after which a reminder was submitted and acknowledged on December sixteenth 2024.
“In that letter, we knowledgeable the Minister of FCT of one other letter we despatched to the Minister of Agriculture and Meals Safety with the identical request however replied and directed us to ship our request to the FCT Minister, in a letter to us, reference No ALR/1809/Vol. 1,”Rilwanu mentioned.
Rilwanu lamented that nothing has been performed to handle the difficulty regardless of sending one other letter to the workplace of the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, to fast-track the letter addressed to the FCT minister.
“We’re nonetheless craving the indulgence of the Honourable Minister Wike to contemplate our request, which is in tandem with President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda in revamping the economic system, producing jobs and enhancing the worth chain within the fisheries and seafood sector,” he pleaded.
The physique, in its first letter dated Could twenty fourth, 2024, knowledgeable the minister that UFSD operates in collaboration with the Institute of Fisheries, Boston, United States of America, in addition to having working relationship with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Meals Safety.
