The number of jobs created by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in Agriculture has been revealed.
The figure was released by Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the president on Media and Publicity.
According to Shehu, Buhari-led administration created 12 million new jobs in agriculture alone.
Politics Nigeria reports that Shehu disclosed this in an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily.
He said the administration did well in many sectors including security, power, fighting corruption among others.
Shehu added:
“In agriculture alone, the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) is talking about 12 million new jobs, look at what we did in agriculture, this administration inherited just four functional fertilizer processing companies, we have 52 that are working today.
“And this shifted the supplies of fertilizer to these 12 million new rice farmers, today rice farmers alone domestically produce rice. This country has achieved food sufficiency, we have diversified the economy, we are no longer a monocultural economy.
“This country had spent $5 billions before this administration every day to buy foreign rice, today no one US Dollar leaves the Central Bank of Nigeria for foreign rice.”
