LOCAL authorities have expended over $7.8 billion to assist persons who were severely affected by the May-June rains last year, while another $1.5 billion was spent for emergency drainage and irrigation works across the country. The government’s interventions, according to Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha, saw over $9.3 billion being expended to assist more than …
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