19/05/2022
What happened to the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA)? A curious Rivers mind may quiz or question.
RSSDA was on the fast lane of driving Rivers from mere surviving to thriving State when Wike administration happened to her in 2017.
One key initiative of the Agency was the world-class Songhai Farm, designed with the aim of developing next generation of farmers. RSSDA was the State representative in a 140 million United States Dollars (USD) Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) initiative called the Agro Industrial Development Project, established between the LR Group of Israel and Rivers State. It was modeled after the Israeli Kibbutz Agricultural System.
The former ED/CEO, Noble Pepple in an interview, remarked, “In agriculture, our focus is to use the sector as a vehicle to create jobs for young people in the State and drive rural development. Agriculture also provides food security when it is doing well. So our involvement in agriculture, which happens to be our largest portfolio, is focused on helping to drive sustainable livelihoods and grassroot development across communities.”
What could be more wicked than seeing our jobs taken away as well as asphyxiate an Agency that was on a sustainable pathway of agricultural revolution, addressing poverty, manpower gap and more when we know that government is continuous?
As concerned and well-meaning Rivers indigenes, you may want to ask Governor Wike this question:
“Where is RSSDA?”
