GOODNEWS! Fayemi To Create 1400 Jobs Opportunities

Fayemi has decided to create 1400 job opportunities in Ekiti State.

News Rain Nigeria reports that Dr. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has decided to create not less than 1400 job opportunities for its citizenry.

The said proposed 1,400  jobs would be created in Ekiti as the first phase of a $5 million (N2.5 billion) integrated agriculture project.

Fayemi To Create 1400 Jobs Opportunities

The approval of the project was made during a meeting with traditional rulers and chiefs of the affected communities, who disclosed that the investment would generate 400 direct jobs and 1,000 indirect jobs.

A press statement made available  to newsmen by the Special Assistant (Media) to the Deputy Governor, Odunayo Ogunmola, listed beneficiary communities as Ipao, Oke Ako, Irele, Ijowa and Itapaji.

A copy of the statement stressed that the project is in partnership with Odu’a Investment Company Limited,  which is also  a Joint Venture arrangement with a core investor to develop an integrated project including a commercial farm for cassava, cashew, maize and soya beans.

The project also incorporates processing plants for starch, nuts, poultry feed, and a poultry farm raising day old chicks to broilers.

Ekiti State Government has sough the cooperation of five towns in Ikole Local Government for the take-off of the project’s first phase.

However the Deputy Governor Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, through the statement has appealed to indigenes of the communities to cooperate with the government to carry out survey on the 10,000 hectares of land allocated to Odu’a Investment in the 50s ahead of commencement of work for investment purpose.

The project according to the Deputy Governor is a very rare opportunity, urging the communities involved to see it as a catalyst for development, growth and moving forward economically and socially.

He said: “Your children who are qualified will be given priorities in terms of jobs it will generate. The investment will create 400 direct jobs and 1,000 indirect jobs and indigenes of the affected towns will be considered first.

“Government will speak with Odu’a Group and they will take care of you. There will be compensation for owners of farms where we have economic trees.” Deputy Governor stressed.