Kogi  Seeks NASRDA ‘s Support to Combat Insecurity through Technology

Ibrahim Oyewale in Lokoja

Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, has appealed to the management of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) to complement efforts by his administration to combat insecurity, improve agriculture and food security, fast track land reforms and support development in other critical sectors using existing space technology and innovative capabilities of the agency.

Ododo made this call during  a meeting held  with the Director-General of NASRDA, Dr. Mathew Olumide Adepoju, yesterday.

The governor, who was accompanied by  some of  senior officials of the government, said that the state is committed to ensuring partnership with NASRDA to improve the state’s Geographic Information System to facilitate land reforms, promote agriculture and food sufficiency, security of lives and property and other critical sectors of the state economy.

He acknowledged the state of technology and innovative endowment available at NASRDA, and called on the leadership of the agency to ensure collaboration with the state government by providing needed assistance to enhance development in the areas already enumerated in the Memorandum of Understanding between the agency and the state government signed late last year in Lokoja in critical sectors.

Responding, the Director-General of NASRDA, Dr. Mathew Olumide Adepoju, commended Governor Ododo for the level of infrastructural development and other achievements recorded within one year of his administration in the state.

Adepoju  thanked Ododo  for adopting space technology as a way of combating insecurity and promoting development in different sectors of the state economy.

He, therefore, assured the governor that the partnership between NASRDA and the Kogi State Government would be sustained in the interest of the country and the people of the state.