Governor Ododo Solicits NASRDA’s Support In Security, Agric, Others
Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has appealed to the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), to complement the efforts of his administration to combat insecurity, improve agriculture and food security, fast track land reforms and development in other critical sectors using existing space technology and innovative capabilities of the agency.
Ododo, who made the appeal when he met with the Director General of NASRDA, Dr. Mathew Olumide Adepoju on Monday, January 20, 2025, said that his administration is committed to ensuring partnership with NASRDA to improve the State’s Geographic Information System to facilitate land reforms, promote agriculture and food sufficiency, security of lives and property and other critical sectors of the state’s economy.
The Governor who was in the company of some senior officials of his administration, acknowledged the state of technology and innovative endowment available at NASRDA. He therefore called on the leadership of the agency to ensure collaboration with the Kogi state government by providing needed assistance to enhance development in the areas enumerated in the Memorandum of Understanding in critical sectors signed late last year in Lokoja between the agency and the state government.
Speaking in turn, the Director General of NASRDA, Dr. Mathew Olumide Adepoju commended Governor Ododo for the level of infrastructural development and other achievements recorded within one year of his administration in Kogi state.
Adepoju thanked Ododo for adopting space technology as a way of combating insecurity and promoting development in different sectors of the state’s economy.
A statement by Ismaila Isah, Special Adviser on Media to the Governor of Kogi State, said that the NASRDA boss assured the Governor that the partnership between NASRDA and the Kogi state government will be sustained in the interest of the country and the people of Kogi state.