•Farming against estate policy – chairman
The Chairman, Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) Estate, Wuse 2, Abuja, Sani Abba-Kura, has allegedly stopped a widow, Ebere Mogbo, from planting 2,000 seedlings around her vicinity to enter for the N25 million Every-home-a-garden competition initiated by First Lady, Remi Tinubu.
Narrating her ordeal at a press conference, Mogbo said: “The problem is that when the First Lady Remi Tinubu told women to have a garden in their homes, I felt that instead of staying at home mourning my husband, I should join them because there is a N25million prize attached to it. So I came here where I have a property to begin cultivation.
“I have started to make things better. I went to Orange Market in Mararaba to buy 2,000 tubers of yam. When I started, nobody stopped me. All of a sudden, one man, Sani Abba-Kura, emerged, claiming to be the chairman of the estate. I do not know him. He stopped me. Meanwhile we had have already planted some yams.
“He drove me away with some remnants of yam seeN25m Every-home-a-garden competition:
Estate chair stops widow from farming
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dlings. I pleaded with him. My husband worked with him and he was their senior. He retired as a top executive director in PHCN.
“So, I have been struggling with 2,000 seedlings. On Saturday when we came here he drove us away and threatened my life. The yams I have planted have been overtaken by weeds.
“I lived here for 9 years and I am not aware of any policy preventing occupants from growing crops in their environment.