The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) commenced training about 20 youths across the state in livestock farming to eradicate hunger and unemployment in the country.
FIRS, which said the empowerment is aimed at ensuring food sufficiency in the country, noted that the gesture would also help grow the country’s GDP.
Speaking in Akure, the Ondo State capital, during the beneficiaries’ training, Benedicta Akpana, who represented the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Dr Zacheus Adedeji, disclosed that the gesture would reduce the country’s unemployment rate.
Adedeji said, “This way, we reduce the unemployment rate in society and become self-sufficient because we know that the government cannot employ everybody. We have to do it for ourselves.”
According to the Chairman, “We are empowering the youth of the Southwest through agro-farming, fish farming, poultry farming, and the like. In addition, we have been doing this for the last one week.
We all know FIRS for always collecting. Therefore, this is us giving back.
“And since August, we have been on this train; we give back and follow up because we believe that when you train a farmer, you feed a nation. Therefore, this is to help us grow our agricultural sector. In the same vein, we grow our GDP as a country.”
While charging the beneficiaries to learn to grow their businesses, the FIRS boss said, “If you learn this properly, you grow with it. You also employ other people because agriculture is paramount in every society.”
Adedeji further stated, “Food surplus is what we are looking at. We have done this poultry farming in Oyo, Osun, and other southwest states, and now we are in the Sunshine State, precisely in the city of Akure.”
