FTS state Minister Dr. Ramatu Aliyu said the administration would review the Vagwalad women’s food processing Center in order to boost economic growth among rural women.

Aliyu in a statement released by her special assistant for media, Mr. Austin Elemue, she made it known at the end of a tour of the facilities at the Gwagwalad district Council.

She said the FTS Administration would work with the private sector to ensure the viability of the centre to achieve its goals. Aliyu said that if the equipment in the center were put to effective use, it would produce enough food to power the area.

The Minister also said that the FTS administration will look for experts who could use these machines.

“We have seen many modern machines ranging from bread-making, bread-making, knitting machines, and rice-processing machines among others. Interesting and sad too, they are brand new machines but not easy to use. Basically, this is a case of an abandoned project.

“I don’t know what it’s for, but we’re going to go back to it completely and revive the food industry group of the women’s developing center for the production of peanut butter, Gary, rice, even bread enough to put FCT in the aggregate.

“We will advertise in the Newspapers to find experts who can prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, their ability to operate the machines, and from there they will be equipped and the building restructured.

“As you can see the structures are weak because it has been decades there, so we will try to see how we can upgrade and strengthen the facility before the operation. Then with this we can empower women, ” Aliyu said.

The Minister called for the complete relocation of the Gwagwalada abattoir instead of upgrading the facilities, noting that the reconstruction of the abattoir would amount to a waste of public funds.

“Even to say, the partial lifting or modernization of this facility is a waste of resources. I don’t even know where we’ll start renovating what they call the abattoir, practically this place calls for a total new abattoir.”

The Chairman of Gwagwalad district Council, Mr. Adamu Danze, assured the Minister that the Council had already identified a suitable site for the construction of a new abattoir. However, he called for a meeting of stakeholders to agree on all views on the establishment of a new abattoir in the Council.