Ahmed Ododo, Governor of Kogi State has urged the management of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) to complement the State Government’s efforts by joining hands in combating insecurity and improve on agricultural practice through space technology.
Ododo stated this during a meeting with Mathew Adepoju, Director General of NASRDA where he urged the Federal Government’s Agency to improve on its agriculture and food security drive, fast track land reforms and support development in other critical sectors, using existing space technology and innovative capabilities of the Agency.
According to a press statement signed and issued by Ismaila Isah , Special Adviser on Media to the Governor ,and was made available to Journalists in Lokpja on Tuesday, Governor Ododo assured the Agency that the State Government is committed to ensuring partnership with NASRDA to improve the State’s Geographic Information System.
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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.
Adepoju Mathew, Director General of NASRDA, commended Governor Ododo for the level of infrastructural development and other achievements recorded within one year of his administration in Kogi State.
He lauded 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 would be sustained in the interest of the Country and the people of Kogi State.
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