Wale Jagun
Otunba Femi Oke, State Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State chapter, has revealed the plans of the association to organise a market where their farm produce from last year would be sold at farmgate prices.
He made the revelation on Friday, at the fifth edition of the distribution of farm implements to members of the association in Lagos East by Senator Tokunbo Abiru at the Senator’s Constituency Office in Ikorodu.
The Chairman of the farmers’ association stated that the planned farmgate sales is to show appreciation and proved to their benefactor that they have been making good use of the support that he has been facilitating for them.
“This is our day. We were gathered here to receive farm implements four times last year and we are starting 2025 with a good development courtesy of our Senator. We hope that this will continue throughout the year.
“We are grateful for the support from Senator Abiru and wish him greater height in his political endeavour.
“As farmers, we are appreciative of his gesture and support at all time, and we shall continue to appreciate and support him.
“We are here today, asking our Senator and members of his team to give us time to make use of his constituency office in Korodu, to bring our harvests from what we grew last year with the support of farm implements that we received from him, to showcase them.
“We want to sell these produce at farmgate prices. We want to do this in the first quarter of the year”, Otunba Oke said.
While emphasizing the association’s appreciation to the Senator, the farmers’ chairman reiterated that the farm produce are not to be distributed free, but to be sold at very discounted rates.
“This is our way of appreciating Senator Abiru, for his support and also showing that we made good use of the support he gave to us last year and we are grateful.
“We also want the generality of the residents of Lagos East, especially our politicians whom we are part of, to know that we are only selling at farmgate prices and not giving out free.
“We are coming here to sell rice, vegetables, pepper and other far produce, and affirm that we did not sell the farm implements or misuse them.
“On behalf of the farmers in the state, we want to use this opportunity to thank him for all what he has been doing for us in Lagos East, and we are assuring him that we will continue to make good use of those inputs”, Otunba Oke reassured the #DoingGood team of Senator Abiru.
