Kogi constructs N4 billion rice mill
“Today we have this factory 100 per cent established by Kogi State Government, which had been neglected by all the past PDP administration.”
He noted that the factory has the capacity to produce over 1000 bags of 50 kg of high quality rice every day, and could employ over 5000 people as direct jobs, and more of indirect employment. He added that the factory had its own independent power generation plant, powered through biomass gasification technology.
”Kogi State is situated in the centre of Nigeria, where people traveling to north, south, east and west must pass through Kogi, which means we are saddled with lots of responsibilities.”All that is required now is that the FG through CBN to come to our aid because we have the capacity to expand this factory in multiple folds.
The governor further said that his administration’s effort had made insecurity to be reduced to the barest minimum in Kogi State.
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