A member of the Federal House of Representatives, Alhaji Ahmadu Jaha, has distributed input and water pumps to 400 farmers in Borno State, to help them increase their crops productivity during dry season.

According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Jaha shared the items to the appreciating farmers im Maiduguri on Monday.

The lawmaker who represents Chibok-Damboa-Gwoza Federal Constituency said that the input was given to farmers in his constituency whose businesses were ravaged by the insurgency.

He remarked that the kind gesture was to provide livelihood to the displaced farmers and contribute to food security in the constituuency.

The lawmaker explained that he used his National Assembly allowances to procure the input and water pumps.

I feel my people are suffering and I am doing this to empower them; this is from my emolument. We have not started anything either through zonal interventions, capital projects or special projects in the constituencies.

We have passed the budget and the implementation will commence in January 2020. I advise my colleagues, they should try to do the best according to the needs of the people of their respective constituencies.

If the constituents need something that will develop them, let them do it, because at the expiration of our tenure, they might seek re-election and at the end of the day people will do performance appraisal.

People at the end of the day will appraise our failure and performances to justify the confidence reposed in us, definitely they are holding us accountable,

Jaha said.

He also called on the beneficiaries to ensure that they judiciously utilize the items and engage in productive farming activities.

One of the beneficiaries, Mr Musa Imam, hailed the gesture, adding that it would ease difficulties they had been experiencing in accessing the input.

The beneficiary recalled that he used to pay two thousand Naira (N2,000.00) just to hire a water pump to work in his farm. He added:

Now I will use the money on other farm activities to produce more.

Justin Nwosu

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