A senior Guide and Public Affairs analyst, Abdulsalam Suleiman Izuagbe, has stated President Bola Tinubu shouldn’t be blamed for the present meals scarcity in Nigeria.
Izuagbe stated terrorists accumulating levies from farmers in some Northern states are chargeable for the present meals scarcity.
Talking with reporter, the Sokoto-based analyst urged Tinubu to point out the political will by ordering safety businesses to confront the terrorists with the suitable weapons.
He additionally charged the Minister of Agriculture to implement insurance policies initiated by a former minister, Akinwunmi Adesina, to spice up meals manufacturing in Nigeria.
Izuagbe stated, “That is the primary planting season since Tinubu got here into energy, the minister of Agriculture ought to hit the bottom working and be prepared to assist the farmers, he shouldn’t be in a single place. He ought to borrow a leaf from what Dr Akinwunmi Adesina did throughout Jonathan’s administration. If he does what is correct, inside the subsequent three to 4 months, there shall be bumper harvest.
“These terrorists are stopping farmers from going to their farms and these is the place the police, Military has to get up, Air Drive will now are available in to root out these terrorists who’re accumulating as much as N100, 000 from farmers earlier than they’ll enter their farmland. How do you plant? The current scarcity of meals in Nigeria just isn’t Tinubu’s fault, it’s as a result of farmers couldn’t farm final yr and what you don’t plant you possibly can’t harvest.
“If the farmers can’t go to farm their shall be little harvest and when you will have little meals available in the market, more cash shall be chasing a couple of items and economically; you will have inflation.
“President Bola Tinubu ought to show a robust political will by directing our safety forces to take the battle to the enemies with acceptable weapons, because the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This needs to be with out additional delay.
“Adesina’s insurance policies ought to work the place you will have the availability fertilizer distribution chain to the farmers and improved seedling that mature inside 40 days, there are corn that mature inside 40 days and prepared for harvest. We have now it on the Institute of Agric Analysis in ABU Zaria, IITA in Ibadan has it, it’s obtainable in Jos.
“These improved seedlings should be launched to the farmers now and inside 4 months, there shall be bumper harvest and meals safety for the folks.”
