As Nigeria’s recession bites harder, the President Muhammadu Buhari administration reversed another policy of the Goodluck Jonathan administration
The policy was one of those that were cancelled by Buhari over a year ago but for which the Jonathan administration praised itself
The economic recession that hit Nigeria may have forced President Muhammadu Buhari to adopt an agricultural policy of the immediate past government of Goodluck Jonathan.
The current administration has announced that it is reviving the e-wallet system for fertiliser allocation and distribution which it suspended over a year ago
Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria’s agriculture minster, made the disclosure after this week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.
He however said the policy would be modified to fix issues that arose with it in the past.
This is Jonathan’s second policy that would be adopted by the Buhari administration within one week.
Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), was earlier quoted as saying that the administration would now fight corruption using technology, an initiative Jonathan campaigned with while presiding over the country.
Buhari had suspended some major policies of the previous administration upon taking over government.
These policies included the e-wallet system, which, according to Premium Times, was part of the Growth Enhancement Support (GES) scheme of the Goodluck Jonathan administration to solve the problems created by middlemen in the supply and distribution of fertiliser to farmers.
With the policy, about 4.2 million farmers were registered within one year with the figure rising to over 10 million later under Akinwunmi Adesina as agriculture minister up till 2015.
Audu Ogbeh had, some months ago, claimed that the policy was riddled with fraud.
“We had to look for money from our own sources at the federal level to bear the liabilities of states,
“The GES payment was a debt we inherited from the previous administration. The total debt was N57 billion.
“When we arrived here, the agro-dealers said they couldn’t operate because they didn’t have bulk money to carry on with their businesses and so we applied to government and appealed for help to raise some money to pay the debt.”
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