The National Space Research and Development Agency’s (NASRDA) management has been encouraged by Kogi State Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo to support his administration’s initiatives to fight insecurity and enhance the state’s agricultural and food security.
Additionally, he asked the Agency to use its innovative capabilities and current space technology to expedite land reforms and assist development in other vital sectors.
According to a statement released and made available to journalists early on Tuesday by Ismail Isah, special adviser for media, Governor Ododo made this statement during a Monday meeting with Dr. Mathew Olumide Adepoju, the Director General of NASRDA.
“The Kogi State Governor who was in the company of some senior officials of the government assured that the state government 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”. He said.
While acknowledging the state of technology and innovative endowment available at NASRDA, “Governor Ododo 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 already enumerated in the Memorandum of Understanding between the agency and the state government signed late last year in Lokoja in critical sectors.”
In his remarks, 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.
He thanked the Governor for adopting space technology as a way of combating insecurity and promoting development in different sectors of the state’s economy, assuring 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.
