{"id":63939,"date":"2025-04-08T04:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63939"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:20:40","slug":"reps-fume-over-ministers-negligence-abandoned-fish-farm-in-fct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/08\/reps-fume-over-ministers-negligence-abandoned-fish-farm-in-fct\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Fume Over Minister&#8217;s Negligence, Abandoned Fish Farm in FCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has expressed outrage over the abandonment of the Fish Farm Estate in Bwari, Abuja, summoning the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Mariya Mahmoud, to explain the glaring neglect of the multimillion naira project.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the House Committee on FCT Area Councils, Fred Agbedi, led the charge during an oversight visit on Monday, condemning the sorry state of the facility. He described the farm as a failed venture that contradicts President Bola Tinubu\u2019s food security agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Agbedi, visibly displeased, noted the absence of basic amenities at the site, including water, electricity, staff, and security, warning that such negligence endangers national efforts to boost local food production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have seen here is nothing short of a disaster. This farm, which should be a hub of activity, has been abandoned and left to decay. We will not allow this level of irresponsibility to continue,\u201d Agbedi declared.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that the National Assembly would intensify efforts to revive the project, while urging security agencies to protect the estate from further vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Director of Fisheries and Aquaculture at the FCT Agriculture Secretariat, Dabit Jonas Agbo, explained that the Fish Farm Estate was established following recommendations from a national committee aimed at reducing Nigeria\u2019s heavy reliance on fish imports.<\/p>\n<p>Agbo admitted the project had suffered setbacks but expressed optimism that the renewed attention from lawmakers could pave the way for its rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>As concerns over food security mount nationwide, the abandoned Fish Farm Estate in Bwari has become a stark reminder of the consequences of administrative neglect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The House of Representatives has expressed outrage over the abandonment of the Fish Farm Estate in Bwari, Abuja, summoning the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Mariya Mahmoud, to explain the glaring neglect of the multimillion naira project. Chairman of the House Committee on FCT Area Councils, Fred Agbedi, led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63941,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63939\/revisions\/63941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}