Adebayo Adenrele
A world bank supported initiative, Livestock Productivity Resilience Support Project (L-PRES) has revealed plans to upgrade Ado-Ekiti main abattoir center to modern market equipped with technological facilities for the benefits of livestock and abattoir users.
The National Project Cordinator, Sanusi Abubakar revealed this on Thursday while speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti, at the end of delegation tour visit across the livestock centres in the state.
Abubakar also pledged to intervene in the livestock value chain of Ekiti in order to boost its productivity in the state.
The places visited include: Erefun livestock development center, Ado-Ekiti Main Abattoir Centre and the Veterinarian office.
Abubakar maintained that the purpose of the intervention was to replicate the efforts of the state government in turning the centres into poultry and piggery hubs which will attract both local and international investors to Ekiti.
His words, “We are here as part of our implementation support mission, we have finished with Kogi state and now we are in Ekiti state, we have gone round like two or three places, Erefun Livestock Development Centre, Ado-Ekiti main abattoir center to see how we can intervene.
“There’s huge prospect of L-PRES. The state cordinating office are doing extraordinary job in designing how we can intervene here. They have keyed in into the laudable initiative of the state government in the broiler Programme in Erefun.
“We have seen a level of upscaling and we are here to see how we can upscale to give our youths the job.
“The Programme is working perfectly in Erefun for the broiler’s section and we want to see how we can expand and excalate what’s happening there.
“At the abattoir, we are looking at possibilities of turning the abattoir into a market by building a very new modern one with modern equipments for the benefits of our livestock and abattoir users”.
On full implementation of the Initiative’s activities in Ekiti, he said: “Ekiti state was approved to have a robust poultry and piggery livestock value chain. We are having it at Erefun and it’s a very huge investment that will bring a lot of investors and that place is chosen strategically.
“There’s a lot of opportunities there, we are linking up to all those youths that are doing the broilers activities for a robust poultry hub and piggery hub”.
On his part, Ekiti state cordinator of L PRES, Olayinka Adedipe reiterated the commitment of the state government towards expanding the centres in order to boost livestock outputs in the Ekiti.