Kogi Targets $350m Investment in Agriculture, Infrastructure

The Kogi State government has said it is hoping to attract about $350 million which it would put into developing its agriculture and infrastructure within this year.

It said out that, it would invest $200 million in its agriculture, while $150 million would go to the upgrade of the state’s social infrastructure.

The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Asiwaju Idris, made this disclosure at the weekend in Abuja when it hosted inves- year,” said Idris.

He further stated: “We want the investors to believe that they can invest in our state and that if they invest in our state their fund is secured. Let them believe that there is security of lives and property.

“As a state we need the infrastructure that can help us grow because we don’t have the money but if you put the framework in place and people believe that your economy is good they will put their money and that is why we are telling them that Dangote did it and he is a billionaire today.”

Speaking on his government’s economic plan, Bello, explained agriculture was pivotal to it and he was making efforts to make the state take maximum benefits from the tonnage of cassava its produces every year in the country.

Represented by the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Matthew Kolawole, the governor said Kogi has become the largest producer of cassava in Nigeria at the