The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has come under fire on social media following a leaked memo conveying the approval of N30m for the construction of a ‘Friday’ mosque with taxpayers’ funds.

The memo, dated December 10, 2020, with reference number FMA/PROC/AHS/SIP/2020/7742/1, stated that the Ministerial Tenders Board approved the contract.
the ministerial tenders board at its 7th meeting held on December 7, 2020, approved the award of contract for the construction of Friday mosque to your company at the total sum of N30m only, inclusive of VAT, with a completion period of eight weeks with effect from the date of this letter.

“You are therefore required to indicate in writing within three days of receipt of this offer, your acceptance to the office of the director, procurement, FMARD, Abuja or otherwise, the offer will be considered lapsed.”
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development declined to make any official comment on the development.
Officials of the ministry demanded that a letter be written to the FMARD’s permanent secretary about the matter which was already trending.

The spokesperson of the ministry, Theodore Ogaziechi, told one of our correspondents that he would not comment on the matter as he had yet to be briefed about it when contacted.

However, it was observed that many employees at the ministry’s headquarters had seen the trending memo, although senior officials refused to endorse or deny its authenticity.

Meanwhile, a search through the 2020 budget by The PUNCH showed that no mosque construction was stated in the ministry’s estimates.

The document was shared several times on social media eliciting condemnation from several Nigerians.

A former lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye tweeted, “What! Despite all the challenges facing food security, building a mosque is the Federal Ministry of Agriculture’s priority! To pray for rain or what? How did we get here for Heaven sake? What has the government got to do with churches or mosques?”

Nicholas Oduaran tweeted, “So this is part of the projects the loans the Federal Government is collecting will be used for?”
Obua Uchenna tweeted, “So hilarious and pathetic that the ministry of agric is building a mosque, the mumu wey de this country is mind blowing and it is getting worse.”

See the memo below:






https://punchng.com/leaked-memo-nigerias-agric-ministry-approves-n30m-for-mosque-construction/

See memo

Everyone get in, let's cruise this country.

No seatbelt o, just hold someone or something tight till fuel finish.

Those who are chanting one Nigeria are a waste of human existence. If these idots want an Islamic nation, can't they just annex themselves up north with Chad, Sudan, Niger Republic etc? When those who are religious extremists with cow dung infested brains are appointed to power, this is what happens.

Here they go again.Same people robbing this nation in the name of a god they are fighting for but leaving their own fight to an uncertain fate.

Wait. Nigeria has an Agric Minister?

U guys are always sentimental in your reportage.
The headings read Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
U know, my northern brothers value Allah more than their lives and they prefer to have a beautiful mosque to befitting school or house.
So, this is their own rural project.
They were likely consulted and they all echoed we need masalanci instead of makaranta or hospital.
Islam is also Nigeria State Religion
Most Nigerian Moslems are very poor that it takes only a government funding to build a befitting mosque.
Allah that can't do anything about the impoverished worshippers, especially the almajiris.
Atleast Christian God is better since the worshippers are richer and not brainwashed into killing for the god .
But in all Religion was begot by man's ignorance.
God is an imaginary figure we created out of our imagination.
The so called supreme God is nothing but different tribal deities

Agriculture and mosque, what's the correlation