GOVERNOR NASIR EL-RUFA’I MAKES KADUNA GREAT AGAIN: AS OLAM GROUP BUILDS A MULTI–BILLION NAIRA POULTRY IN KADUNA STATE!
GOVERNOR NASIR EL-RUFA’I MAKES KADUNA GREAT AGAIN: AS OLAM GROUP BUILDS A MULTI–BILLION NAIRA POULTRY IN KADUNA STATE!
By:
Nurudeen Dauda
11th April , 2016.
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Public policy at work in Kaduna state; with the Kaduna state school feeding programme about 600,000 (20,000 crates) of eggs are required “Every week” for the programme. With the introduction of the programme the total number of students is now about 1.8million from about 1.2million. It is a known fact that with the introduction of the school feeding programme the Poultry farms in Kaduna cannot give the state its required eggs for consumption; this is because the 600,000 eggs for the feeding programme do not add up with the daily domestic eggs consumption of Kaduna state.
Thousands of Jobs will be created through the setting of (1) Poultry breeding farm, (2) Feed mill, and (3) Hatchery. More so, Agricultural business will be boosted in the areas of “Maize” “Groundnut” and “Soya-Beans” farming etc., which are all raw materials used in the production of poultry feeds. The government will generate lot of revenue through “taxes” from the company which will ultimately boost the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Kaduna state.
Olam group will build Multi –Billion Naira Poultry in Kaduna State courtesy of Governor El-Rufa’i; the plant when completed will be Nigeria’s largest integrated animal feed mill, poultry breeding farm and hatchery. Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i was supposed to be on the entourage of President Buhari’s state visit to USA last year but he delegated his Deputy, Architect Bala Bantex to represent him while he went to Singapore in order woo the company to Kaduna state.
The company’s senior vice president (Grains) Mr Sharad Guptar, stated that Olam has committed $100 million (about N20billion) to the project. The project will sit on 800 hectares of land and has the potential to produce two million eggs per week with a state-of-the art hatchery that can also produce one million commercial chicks in a week.
The Hatchery site will be capable of supplying “Day old chickens” to all Northern states which hitherto mostly get their supply from Lagos-Ogun-Ibadan axis thereby boosting the economy of Kaduna state and by extension the Northern economy.The Poultry farms when completed will reduce the importation of Chickens and eggs from abroad thereby reducing the pressure on our Forex; nevertheless, it will also make chickens cheaper and affordable to the people of Kaduna state. Accordingly, the nutrition of the people will also be improved thereby making them healthier.
The business of “Modern Government” everywhere in the world from America-Russia to China is not employing people directly and put them under the “Government’s Payroll” but to make policies that will lead to “Jobs creation” and also invite the private sector to invest in the economy and give people jobs. In America-Russia and China of today less than 15% of their annual budgets go to “recurrent expenditure” but unfortunately in our case the reverse is the case for many years due over bloated public service. The new world order is about “lean” or “small” government!
May God bless Kaduna and Nigeria!