The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Bandele Oyewole has reiterated the University’s Commitment to the transformation programme of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration.

Speaking at a One-Day National Cassava Stakeholders’ Forum at NICON Luxury Hotel, Abuja, Professor Oyewole described the evolution and commercialization of cassava bread in the country as part of government’s transformation agenda, which is highly laudable.

The Vice-Chancellor disclosed that “as a matter of fact, what we are discussing today (cassava bread) was inaugurated in our University (FUNAAB)”.

Speaking further at the Stakeholders Forum, organized by the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology (NIFST) in partnership with FUNAAB, Professor Oyewole who is a renowned Food Scientist assured that the University won’t relent in supporting government’s transformation agenda.

The Vice-Chancellor stated that “the commencement of Cassava Agricultural Transformation Programme (CATP) in September, 2011 brought high hopes to cassava utilization starting from the inclusion policy of  High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) in wheat bread”.

He stressed that “our university associates with the drive of the Honourable Minster of Agriculture and Rural Development in making cassava an engine of industrial growth in  Nigeria”.

Professor Oyewole therefore appealed to stakeholders and well meaning Nigerians at large” to display high level of national commitment and productivity” adding that “ I have a dream that if we all accept to adopt Cassava bread, the product will get to all nooks and crannies in the country and beyond”.