The government of Niger State, led by Governor Umar Bago, has announced its intention to retake all territory now occupied by bandits.
Bago said the land reclamation project would have a positive economic impact.
The governor announced this alongside initiatives being taken by his administration to address the state’s pervasive feeling of insecurity.
On Wednesday, the governor announced the first-ever subnational summit on green economy during a press conference in Abuja.
The “government plan” of Bago’s administration, as he puts it, is to “take over all lands currently housing bandits across the state and put them into economic use.”
As a result of this discovery, he stated, “bandits are not governed and therefore plans to take over such land for vast agricultural purpose.”
The governor also said that mining in the state has been outlawed and that livestock ranches will be established.
The following planting season will begin in 2024, and Governor Bago has already declared intentions to purchase heavy equipment in preparation.
It is already clearing roughly 300,000 hectares of land, he added, and will plant about 10 million trees across the state during the next six months.
The governor announced that his administration had reached a deal to halt livestock transport to the South with many western states.
Cattle shipments to the southern states will be halted under our agreement. The governor announced that a processing plant would be built in Mokwa to handle the goods before they were sent south.
He went on to say that mining was illegal in the state and that no one involved in the industry would be allowed to work there under any circumstances, even if they had a license from the federal government.
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