Gov. Umaru Fintiri said this on Sunday in a state-wide broadcast over the ongoing nationwide protest.
Fintiri also said that arrangements had been concluded to capture another 10,000 beneficiaries.
He said that payment of the beneficiaries would commence this month and that the gesture was designed to create an enabling environment for the Small and Medium Enterprises in the state to thrive.
He said: “Through our ICT-for-Empowerment corridor, we are training 100,000 youths to acquire the necessary skills for survival.
“With the discussion on the new minimum wage settled, we intend to recruit more people into the service of the state.”
The governor further said that to cushion the effect of high cost of transportation on the citizens,10 luxury busses were test-run for intra and inter-city mass transit and found impactful.
“We are, therefore, scaling this up by deploying more than 30 more busses to ply our roads.
“We are also going to allocate a substantial number of the busses to our schools to cushion the effect of high transportation cost on our students,” he said.
The governor said that his administration was doing its best to cushion the effect of the economic difficulties.
He emphasised that the only solution to hunger is to take agriculture more seriously.
“In this direction, we have been very proactive by constituting a food security committee with the mandate to aggressively drive a youth-to-farm campaign.
“The committee is working round the clock to ensure that every Local Government has a demonstration farm of a minimum of 300 hectares, where our youths would be trained on modern agricultural practices with inputs freely provided,” he said.
Fintiri further confirmed receiving 35 trucks of the 65 trucks of fertilizers procured by the Central Bank of Nigeria and allocated to the state by the Federal Government.
He said the State Government had also procured 69 more trucks and other inputs to be distributed to farmers at a subsidised rate of 50 per cent.
He said in the past five years, the government had taken off the responsibility of paying WAEC, NECO and other examination fees for students in public schools from parents and guardians.
“We built and made more operational cottage hospitals in all the Local Governments without secondary health facilities.
“Working with the local governments, we have made the Primary Healthcare facilities optimally functional with the right personnel and drugs,” the governor said. (NAN)
