Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday offered job to hoodlums, popularly called, Area Boys at the government owned rice processing factory and its other farms.He said it was time for them to vacate the streets and embrace employment opportunities that government offered.
The governor spoke at the inauguration of the factory in Imota, Ikorodu Local Government.
Also inaugurated was a poultry estate in Erikorodo, Ikorodu.
Fashola said, “The time for wealth without work is over. We will give you farmland and support. Our land is too green for us to be hungry; our youths must be ready to work in the farms that we are creating. ”
The governor said his administration was building a sustainable economy around agriculture, adding that agriculture could make the nation overcome its economic challenges.
He urged the Federal Government to allocate the land around Ogun River Basin to the state to enable it increase its food production.
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Bukar Tijani, said Nigeria’s need for rice would reach five million metric tons by 2015.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Gbolahan Lawal, said the factory could produce about 400,000 bags of rice per year.
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