DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, weekend, said he would not sign the death warrants of condemned criminals.

Dr. Uduaghan, who stated this at a town hall meeting in Umeh Community, Isoko South Council Area of the state, a fall out of a Facebook page, Umeh Needs Road, said as a medical doctor, he was trained to save lives and not to take them, just as he enjoined communities in the state to focus on farming and boost agricultural production not only to become self-sufficient but also to sell and increase their earning power.

The governor said it had become necessary to create employment for the teeming youths as well as empower the people, adding that it was part of Government’s deliberate policy to refocus the attention of the people away from oil to more lasting and revenue yielding sectors of the economy.

Governor Uduaghan assured the people of Umeh that the government would, in 18 months, complete the 7.6 kilometre Umeh Road, disclosing how the Umeh Road was awarded in November 2011 after interacting with members of Umeh Needs Road Forum on Facebook.

Uduaghan promised to provide the enabling environment and infrastructures such as health facilities, water, electricity, transport and good road network to increase the capacity of the people to produce, process and export their farm produce.

He said: “I promise to provide good roads and other facilities, and in turn you should farm to become the food basket of the nation by boosting the production of agricultural produce.”