Executive Order on FRILIA, 2024.

This Order aims at ensuring the achievement of the government's goal to create an enabling, responsible, and inclusive business operating environment for large-scale agribusiness investments in Benue State. The Order concerns: adoption of FRILIA principles, including: minimising land acquisition, recognising and protecting land rights, ensuring transparent and fair State land acquisition, ensuring environmental and social sustainability against environmental damage, improving assessments of potential positive and negative impacts on tenure rights, food security, livelihood, environment, rights and status of women and youth, and physical cultural property. Further matters covered by this Order include: establishment, powers and functions of the FRILIA committees; establishment of a grievance redress mechanism; adoption of FRILIA guidelines.