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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2004           2005 budget: NASS reviews agric allocation upward From MU�AWUYA B. IDRIS, Katsina THE upper legislative chamber of National Assembly has approved additional substantial amount of money for agricultural sector in response to complaints over the 1.7 per cent allocated to the sector in the 2005 federal government budget. A senator representing Katsina Central, Alhaji Umaru Tsauri, told Daily Triumph in an exclusive interview on Sunday, that the entire Senate had unanimously agreed to increase the amount allocated to agricultural sector. Senator Tsauri described the 1.7 per cent allocated to the sector in the budget as too meager and unacceptable in view of the importance of agriculture as the mainstay of the Nigerian economy. �Nigeria is a country where we are tying to run away from oil to agricultural economy, we cannot compromise agriculture because that is the vein of the lives of all citizens of a nation�, he explained. Senator Tsauri further stressed that �when the president presented the budget and we realized that less than two per cent was allocated to agriculture, nobody among us was comfortable, everybody was bitter. �I don�t think there is any member of the National Assembly who supported the meager percentage allocated to agricultural sector�, he emphasized. The Senator explained that all committees assigned to study the budget unanimously agreed that a substantial increase must be made to the sector. He explained that the budget would soon be passed by the National Assembly to the executive for its assent. Speaking on projects to be executed by the federal government in his constituency, Senator Tsauri disclosed that the federal government has set aside N1 billion for completion of Zobe dam. Senator Tsauri further said the federal government would provide other facilities for irrigation activities at Jibia dam. SITE TOOLS Print This Page   EMAIL THIS PAGE Friend's Name: Friend's  Email: Your Name: Your Email:           � Triumph Publishing Company Limited 2004

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