President Muhammadu Buhari
administration of the federal
government of Nigeria is
clearly not in tune with the
speed of governance in a jet
age, however, issues bothering on the economy or
welfare of the people of
Nigeria deserves more timely
consciousness and proactive
responses. Just about one year of the
slump in oil prices, nationals of
oil-dependent nations are now
grappling with hunger and
Venezuelans despite being
among top most oil exporting nation with a population of
about 33 million people, are
now on the exodus to
agrarian Colombia in search of
food. Nigeria with an informal
population of about 200
million people is already
experiencing deaths in
hundreds in the IDP Camps
from malnutrition and the European Union (EU) statistics
suggests that well over 11
million children in Nigeria are
suffering from stunting
growth as a result of
malnutrition. About 5 percent of the
Nigerian workforce are
employed by Nigerian
governments, about 80
percent are engaged in the
private sector whose reliance are connected to importation
or oil export. President Buhari said that 27
out of the 36 states cannot
pay salaries, the private
businesses that are connected
with importation are impeded
with devaluation of Naira and oil connected industries are
neither smiling with the
slump in oil prices and lately
with hostilities from the Niger
Delta crisis. All these points to
one direction that Nigeria is in for hard times. Therefore,
provision of basic needs of
life, like food, must be a
priority to any sensible
government than capital
projects. Mr President, there is hunger
in the land and great famine
looms but here are my
solutions before it becomes
too late. UDEOGARANYA SOLUTIONS: -
National Food Production
Scheme (NFPS) 1. Summon and go into
partnership with the local
government councils in these
states of North Central States,
South-Eastern States, South-
South States and South West- States with the exception of
most councils in Lagos State or
other states councils that do
not have substantial lands for
food crop farming. 2. Design simple and optimum
yield farming tools and
contract local Chinese
companies to produce them at
a negotiable overstock rates
with production period not exceeding about 45 days of
placing orders. 3. Supply your farming tools
and expertise technics to the
LGAs accordingly with their
line of farming. 4. Create a national
sensitization program with
incentives to the participants
in the National Food
Production Scheme (NFPS) in
any local council of their choice in the federation,
provided that the receiving
local council consented to it. 5. National sensitization
program on population is now
more than ever important as
food meant for two persons
cannot be enough for ten
hungry mouths, 6. Allow the councils to
compete with the provision
of basic support or incentives
to all the councils. 7. Create a National Food
Production Scheme Authority
(NFPSA) to oversee the entire
affairs and more and to
respond to Mr President
directly.
