The immediate past governor of the state, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, was said to have applied for the loan in 2019.
The state government claims the money was distributed to farmers across the state, with each of them collecting N50, 000 for bush clearing. Many farmers in the rural communities of the state denied accessing the loan.
Recently, a loyalist of former governor Dickson and an ex-general manager of Radio Bayelsa, Mr Idumange John, accused the Governor Diri-led administration of diverting the N3 billion agric loan to the pockets of politicians, saying that it’s too early for the administration to “defraud Bayelsans.”