WAY FOWARD FOR EDO FARMERS

Cooperativefarmersassociation@gmail.com 

 ACFA/Hqtrs 021-Ben/ Cm/A 04

                                                                                                                                        19^th Sept, 2013

The Honourable Commissioner for Agriculture,

Through the Permanent Secretary,

Ministry of Agriculture & Natural Resources,

Edo State.

Sir,

     WAY FORWARD FOR EDO FARMERS

We want to inform you sir that we have written several letters to your office requesting to pay you a visit in order to present before you a blueprint that we have designed to enable Edo Farmers move forward in their farming ventures.

All Co-operative Farmers Association, (ACFA) Edo State. Has been registered as farmers’ co-operative representative in the state under the Ministry of Youth/Sports and Social Mobilization. With her mission as, to bring together, protect and make financial and moral provisions for all farmers affiliated to her, in Edo State. ACFA also have a responsibility to protect all her members from being lynch or cheated on by oppressors. ACFA members are very sure that no matter how strong or popular their intending challengers may be, ACFA will never give way to any of its traits

We want to notify you sir of the letters already delivered to your office In respect of our intending visit to your honorable office. One of the letters had Reference No; ACFA/Hqtrs 03-Ben/ Cm/A 1/03 and dated 01^st June, 2013. Why the other bears Reference No: ACFA/Hqtrs 011-Ben/ Cm/A 02 and dated, 29th August, 2013.

We requested to pay you an official visit to discuss this issue because we find relevance in you as the only solution to this Ricky-Nicky playing in the farming sector. please Sir, we are approaching a new farming season and we are very sure that to mass produce food stuff in the state as required by the federal government of Nigeria, which is being developed by means of his Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), we believe this step already being worked on by the All Co-operative Farmers Association, will help to imprison food insecurity in the state in particular and the country in general.

We want to use this great opportunity to congratulate you for your recent appointment as the Honourable Commissioner for Agriculture And Natural Resourced, Edo State.

We still confidently stand on our pledge that if we are given a level plain ground to operate, we shall help your Ministry to generate reasonable tax from our farmers to support the faith strengthening programs of the Comrade Governor. This will give us the buoyancy to join you in acknowledge with the state governor that we shall move to the next level, together.

        We promise to remain loyal to you if you give us the expected recognition/information and if you support our effort to reposition agriculture in the state.

Thanks for your anticipated support.

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  ACFA General Secretary

         08035778716    

ARE WE MEETING UP WITH THE PURPOSE OF SETTING UP THE CO-OPERATIVE UNION?

                                                          AG-L11/FUM05/D-TR1/FA-05

                                                         7^TH December, 2012.

    

The President,

Through the Manager,

Edo State Co-operative Farmers Agency,

Benin City,

Edo State

            Sir,

DOES POWER ACTUALLY INTOXICATE?

I want to bring to your notice once again sir that I have submitted several letters to your office bringing to your notice events taking place in Ovia North East Co-operative Farmers Union, Okada.

It’s rather unfortunate that you held the report with laxity on the fraction of the supplicant. Be reminded sir that in your presence, I was legally appointed into the office of the Secretary of the Ovia North East Farmers Union, hence, my appointment can only be terminated through a legal process. The fact that I decided to be patience with the recent attitude of the Union president is base on the genuine love I have for the Union and all its members. And the fact that I am very well aware that he’s being intoxicated with the power of presidency to that office as I am very sure he has never hold such an esteemed position before.

I also see a need to respect your office by waiting for you to address the discrepancies amicably. But my patience is wearing away because from all aspect; there is symptom of partiality in the process. As a report submitted to your office in the month of September has not been attended to. Even when a follow up document was submitted to you a month later.

There is no obscure about the truth that it seems the agency and her affiliate unions are operating without ethics. I hereby urge you to prepare yourself to serve the people diligently, and without prejudice. I want to assure you here sir that co-operative society operates on the same principle all over the world. One of the principles which is DEMOCRATICALLY CONTROLLED, is expected to be operated on the basis that any business formed by more than one person is expected to also be controlled by all affiliate members, democratically.

Therefore, the destructive action taken by the ONECFU president Mr. Newman .S. Orogun which has been communicated to you in the month of September, should be critically looked into, without any favoritism in order to correct the aberration already taking shape in the union. I am bothered because I have invested so much for the success of the union farm at Okokhuo and Mr. Newman has instructed his committee not to allow me go to my portion and the portion of some other persons I have allotted land for in the farm, as the Manager of the Union, with permission from the same president, Mr. Orogun .S. Newman.

 Sir, if Mr. Newman intends to employ another person to work for him as his secretary, I am not disturbing him. But his hindering me, my group and some other persons I allot land for from working in the farm, may not augur well for him, because I know the sacrifice I have made to make sure the union gets a hold on the said farmland.

Please sir, help them to terminate my appointment justly, and also advice the president not to obstruct me, my group and some others I allotted land for in the farmland, in order for peace to continue to reign in the Union.

I have always hold your office with respect which I will always do if you continue to put the right peg in the right hole, just as the Comrade governor of Edo State is setting the pace. The farmland was approved for the union with the condition that it is going to be utilized for the purpose at which it was approved. Otherwise they (Ministry of Environment and Utilities)gave us a condition that they will revoke or take away the land from us if it’s not used within a specified period of time.

Also be inform sir that according to the Bye-Laws of the Ovia North East Local Government Area Farmers’ Multi-purpose Co-operative Union Limited, page 6 section 23 under the heading OFFICERS AND MANAGERS, it states “The president, the Vice President and Treasurer elected at the Annual General Meeting shall hold office for one year and shall resign at the next Annual General Meeting”. Therefore January 2013 being the first January after the first year of operation of the executives of the union, the Union will hold her first Annual General Meeting. And it is your responsibility to coordinate the AGM in collaboration with staffs of the Co-operative Department, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Your ability to put an end to this looming horror and to reorganize the Union for better production will show that you are not associated to those who allow power to intoxicate them by speculating that bad is good and that good is bad.

Thanks,

Yours Respectfully,

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                                                       Mr. Agbonlahor Osamuyi