The Economy - Budget, Finance, Commerce, Trade & Industry

About N161 million micro-credit loans have been disbursed to 949 Akwa Ibom farmers under the Inter-ministerial Committee on Micro-credit Scheme by the state government.  while presenting the 2008 budget to the State House of Assembly. Leadership 27 December 2008.

"In general, we are covering the entire sectors of the economy of Benue State because we noticed that the fundamental problem of the state is that the rural economy has collapsed. So we created a ministry for rural development and what we are trying to do is to extend some loan to cooperatives for them to create wealth in the village. We are also building a lot of rural roads so that agricultural produce from the farms can easily be moved to where they can get returns on them. So far, we have been delivering the dividends of democracy to the good people of Benue State." in an interview. Thisday 31^st October 2009.