The Senator representing Kwara Central, Saliu Mustapha, has decried that the 2025 budget did not give as much priority to agriculture as it gave to security.
Senator Mustapha made the observation on the floor of the Senate during a debate on the budget, on Thursday.
Naija News reported that defence had the highest allocation of ₦4.9 trillion in the budget, followed by infrastructure, education and health.
The Kwara Central Senator warned that neglecting farmers would affect the country as food security remained important like every other aspect of security.
“Lack of security has brought us to this level. There are three major areas that government will always intervene. These are health, education and agriculture.
“I hope that this budget after taking care of health and education, we equally look inwards because you cannot secure the environment and you don’t have enough to deploy into agriculture for farmers to really do what they need to do.
I’m hoping that we will be able to look inward again to see what we can do to support agriculture; because with that we can produce what to eat and eat what we produce.
“All we need is to jack up our production, that is the most important aspect if not then whatever we are securing, we are securing it for vacuum.
“I hope that my colleagues at the end of the day when we are looking at the details of this budget will be able to do more for agriculture,” Senator Mustapha said.
