“The element which creates pains for us is the plight of our people in the villages. The level of poverty in the villages is simply unacceptable-we all came from there,” he lamented.
Ogbeh said the local government system has collapsed, that is why they hardly carryout any meaningful development.
The minister observed that the state-local government joint account system has made a mess of the whole issue, adding that “nothing is going on down there.”
He said the ministry is coming up with a programme called Labour Intensive Family Enterprise (LIFE) where processing equipment for groundnuts, soya beans, palm kernel, rice, Shea butter and others will be set up in the villages to actively and massively engage the rural dwellers in order to create wealth, reduce rural-urban drift and reduce poverty.
“We are taking life back to villages. We want the villages to be part of the all-inclusive growth agenda,” Ogbeh said.
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