‘Why Lagos has not acquired farmlands in the North’

The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, disclosed this recently during  a telephone interview with our reporter, noting that the state has acquired 84 hectares of farmland in Osun State for oil palm processing  and additional 1,000 hectares for crop farming including 500 hectares of land in Eggua, Ogun State, for […]

The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, disclosed this recently during  a telephone interview with our reporter, noting that the state has acquired 84 hectares of farmland in Osun State for oil palm processing  and additional 1,000 hectares for crop farming including 500 hectares of land in Eggua, Ogun State, for rice production.  
The Commissioner, who explained that the state government had received titles on the newly acquired land in these states, stressed that Lagos State still needed to acquire farmland in the northern part of the country for dedicated food supply.
He said: “Over 2,703.86 hectares of land have been acquired in the state for Agricultural purposes among which is the land set aside for Songhai project apart from the 100 hectares of land acquired at Iya-Afin in the Badagry area of the state to be used as vegetable estate.  
“Our objective now is to acquire more farmland particularly in the north. We have acquired land already at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and we strongly believe we could acquire more in the north but the activities of Boko Haram insurgents and Fulani herdsmen invasion in that part of the country is a source of worry to us. However, we are bidding our time and we pray that the crisis rocking the north will soon become a thing of the past to enable us pursue our agricultural programmes in that part of the country without fear.”