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60 years after establishment, Orin-Ekiti farm settlement turns criminals’ hideout
Once a thriving farming settlement, 60 years later, the place now bears more resemblance to a thick forest where danger lurks, and a ready home for criminal minds. ‘YOMI AYELESO takes a journey to the Orin-Ekiti Farm Settlement established in 1959, and reports the gradually degenerating state of the once bubbling hub of agricultural activities.
IN a bid to generate employment opportunities and improve the standard of living for unemployed youths through agriculture, the government of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, of the old Western region, established a farm settlement in…
Source: Nigerian Tribune
