SEDAG

SEDAG: MOVES TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE PROGRESS OF THE 2024, 4.6 BILLION NAIRA GRANTS TO FARMERS, MSMEs, COMMUNITIES AND IT STARTUPS IN ENUGU STATE.

On August 8, 2024, at Okpara Square Enugu, the state government announced that she flagged off the distribution of 4.6 billion naira worth of agricultural inputs and MSMEs grants to both the farmers and IT startups in the 17 local government areas of the state.

SEDAG a Socio - Economic Development and Accountable Governance, in a letter to the Enugu State Commissioner of Agriculture and signed by Comrade Onyebuchi Mbah, stated that by the gesture of the state government that it would be expected that after six months of injecting 4.6 billion naira in the agricultural and MSMEs sectors that there will be an increase in food production and price stability especially in rice, beans and cassava production.

To this end our organization, SEDAG takes a special interest to assess the impact and challenges faced by the beneficiaries in the use of the grants and farm inputs.

The findings and appraisal will be made available in the public domain from time to time as we engage with the real beneficiaries.

SEDAG COMMENDS ENUGU STATE GOVERNOR FOR HIS GIGANTIC SUPPORTS TO AGRICULTURE AND MSME IN THE STATE

Socia-EconomicDevelopment and Accountable governance (SEDAG) a civil society group congratulates the Enugu state Governor, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, on the recent empowerment of 4.6 billionaire worth of agricultural inputs and MSMEs grants to farmers, communities, and IT startups across the 17 local government areas of the state.

The statement was made by the group Executive Director during an interview with a BAN reporter in Enugu.

SEDAG, pointed out that the action of the Governor is a good move and in the right direction, as the empowerment came in the time the youths took over the streets to protest against hardship, hashtagged , as a result of high cost of food items and essential goods price, which has thrown the entire nation into extreme poverty and hunger.

According to SEDAG, releasing and distributions of the funds is not always the problem but the funds reaching the target or real beneficiaries. The group stated that if the initiative and purpose to which the governor released the 4.6 billion naira is well implemented, the funds and farming tools given to the real beneficiaries will increase food production, job creations, and security enhancement; thereby boosting the state economy, which is the core purpose the government pumped the huge sum of money in the agricultural and micro business sector.

SEDAG also expressed interest in working with the government of Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah in monitoring the movement of the funds to ensure the success of the initiative of the government in enhancing food security, agro-industrialization, and the development of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSMEs) in the state.

SEDAG also assured the general public that it will make available every information regarding the monitoring of the fund and evaluation of the performance by the beneficiaries, for accountability and transparency, which is the core objective of the group.