Group Calls On Yar'Adua to Remove Agric Minister - Daily Trust

19 December 2007
Posted to the web 19 December 2007

Abdul-Rahman Abubakar
Abuja

A group, Coalition for Good Health, has called on President Umaru Musa Yar'adua to remove the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr. Sayyadi Abba Ruma over poor budget implementation.

A statement jointly signed by the president of the group, Mr. Arnold Ugbuewu and National Secretary Tunde Ajakaiye, accused Dr. Ruma of withholding budgetary allocations for the water resources sector long after Due Process Office had issued clearance.

"We are forced to pick up issues with the minister of Agriculture and Water Resources and indeed petition President Yar'adua over a fundamental sector of the nation's life that is been handled lackadaisically.

"We dare to state that the current policy of non implementation of budget by the minister, if allowed, will have far reaching negative consequences on the lives of the already pauperized Nigerians," the group said. Full Story