Agriculture

SUFAN Gives Recipe for Ensuring Food Security

By Web News 324

By Lilian Ibomor

Policies favourable to agriculture will not only boost food production but will equally attract youths in the country to engage in farming.

Chairman Sustainable Farmers Association of Nigeria SUFAN, Southwest Zone, Mr Matthew Ogunmodede, stated this at the 15th annual Farmer’s Forum, a programme facilitated by the Justice Development and Peace Commission, JDPC, Ibadan.

Mr Ogunmode explained that food security should not be a critical issue if the government at all levels address factors militating against maximum utilization of the vast arable lands in the country, and the involvement of teeming youths in farming.

Southwest Zone SUFAN chairman pointed out particularly that governors in the region needed to address issues of road network, inadequate storage facilities and irrigation system, which are necessary for farmers in the Southwest to compete favourably with their counterparts in the North.

Mr Ogunmodede added that the availability of these facilities would make farming very attractive to youths in the region.

In a goodwill message, the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese, Ibadan, Most Reverend Gabriel Abegunrin urged the government to address incessant attacks, invasion and destruction of crops, which were seriously affecting farmers.

Archbishop Abegurin said Nigerians should continue to pray fervently for the government in its efforts to tackle insecurity and other issues bedevilling the country.

Among those in attendance at the event were representatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corp, NSCDC, the Miyetti Allah and Traditional rulers.

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Judiciary

Oyo CJ Wants Effective Implementation of Community Service Sentencing Scheme

By Web News 637

By Dayo Adu

Stakeholders in the judicial sector have been charged to evolve mechanism that would ensure effective implementation of Community Service Sentencing Scheme so as to stamp out cases of absconding and repeated offenders.

The Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Iyabo Yerima gave the charge at a workshop organised by Justice Development and Peace Commission, Ibadan

Justice Yerima, who explained that the community Service Sentencing had assisted in decongesting the correctional facilities by allowing convicts to serve their punishment term in the community, suggested that convicts should be made to serve in their community of origin so as to make them remorseful.

Represented by Justice Laniran Akintola, the Chief Judge, advocated strict monitoring of convicts serving punishment under community service option, especially, politicians and those convicted of financial crimes to ensure penitence, and there should be no swap cases. 

On his part, a former Commissioner for Justice in Oyo State, Mr. Seun Abímbólá explained that the judiciary had self funded the scheme since 2017 when it began operations in the state, urging the government to commit more budgetary allocation to enable the scheme serve it purpose in the state.

Earlier in an address of welcome, Director, JDPC, Ibadan, Reverend Father, Jerome Ajakaiye, whiling noting that the scheme had committed over one thousand offenders of minor offences to community service, said it had reduced over stretching of correctional facilities, outbreak of public health, cost of imprisonment and stigmatization of ex-convicts.

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