The Governor of Borno State Babagana Umara Zulum has gifted the sum of five million Naira to one almajiri in Borno who made a farming plough machine manually pushed for tilling of farmlands towards planting.
Ploughs are usually attached to tractors, other means of transport, or manually dragged in farms.
As a Professor of Irrigation Farming, Zulum was excited that the 25-year-old Laminu Mohammed who hails from Gubio Local Government in northern Borno has never attended any formal school except traditional Islamic education called Tsangaya and popularly called almajiri system across northern Nigeria.
Laminu used components of a lister engine which is originally made for water pump to construct a plough which works like a tractor that is pushed by hand.
Informed of Laminu’s talent by a Government official, Zulum invited Laminu and during technical interaction the almajiri proved his skills for the invention after which he was rewarded with N5m
The Governor said the amount is aimed to inspire the ‘unschooled engineer’ to produce more ploughs and possibly other agricultural machineries that can serve farmers in Borno.
Zulum’s support for Laminu came barely two weeks after MAIDAWAAREWA reported that the Governor approved over N5m for a 13-year old primary school boy who used mud to copy-design Borno’s first flyover located along the Maiduguri – Gamboru Ngala highway
In another vain Zulum had presented five mini buses and N20m cash to a young Borno man who specializes in converting buses with petrol engines into solar-powered electric vehicles.
