Dangote Sugar  Company  Tunga To Expand To Akiri, Wuse, And Azara Communities-Governor Sule

Rabiu Omaku

Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule has explained that Dangote Sugar Company, instead of having just one facility in Tunga where they are going to have 18000 TCD to be crushed, they are now having two. One 18000 and another having 9000 TCD up there somewhere around Azara, Akiri, or Wuse areas. 

Governor Abdullahi gave the hint during the inauguration of both the steering and technical committees for the Framework for Responsible Investment in Land-Intensive Agriculture (FRILIA).

The Governor inaugurated the two committees during a ceremony at the Government House recently.

According to the Governor, with agriculture playing a pivotal role in the economic development of the state, full implementation of FRILIA would not only attract large-scale private agricultural investments but also ensure shared benefits for both investors and host communities.

He added that the FRILIA framework, as part of a World Bank economic transformation agenda programme, equally seeks to align his administration with best international practices, ensuring an environment of healthy environmental and social practices.

“The FRILIA will increase Nasarawa State’s attractiveness for private investment and minimize potential conflicts between communities and investors, as well as the herder/farmer c

“This is all in line with the fact that we are providing the environment, our communities are willing to work together with the rest of the people. This committee will play a key role in the acquisition of additional land in order for them to have additional area they can have sufficient cane to crush,” he stated.

The Governor therefore charged members of the committees and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the diligent implementation of the agricultural investments in the state in line with FRILIA principles

Just yesterday, I received the new team that came to the Tunga Dangote project. They came in order to look for the opportunity to acquire more site. Because most of the commercial agribusiness investors have realized that with the foreign exchange challenges recently, they have realized it is difficult for them now not to go into backward integration

The Governor therefore charged members of the committees and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the diligent implementation of the agricultural investments in the state in line with FRILIA principles.

In a vote of thanks, Chairman of the Steering Committee and Deputy Governor of the State, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, thanked his principal for finding them worthy of appointments into the committees.

Dr. Akabe noted that, for any nation to indeed fight poverty and hunger, attention must be given to agriculture, while pointing out that Nasarawa State is endowed with arable land that can take any kind of crop.Dangote Sugar  Company  Tunga To Expand To Akiri, Wuse, And Azara Communities-Governor Sule

The steering committee is expected to promote transparency in land acquisition and resettlement for large-scale agribusiness investments, amongst several other functions