Lobbying, dirty deals and even blackmail, may be behind the setbacks being suffered by the federal government’s initiative to add cassava flour to wheat flour in the production of bread and other confectioneries. ThisDay reports that an American wheat lobby group and some Nigerian wheat flour millers may have resolved that the plan does not see the light of day. One strategy is to disrupt the policy using some close aides of the minister of agriculture and rural development, Akinwunmi Adesina.

The United African Company (UAC), one of the leading bread and confectioneries producers to embrace the policy, is said to have run into serious difficulties, with wheat flour millers now threatening to withdraw their credit facilities to the company for its wheat needs as a way of compelling it to rethink its resolve to buy in on the cassava flour inclusion policy. Another food processing company in Lagos, Food Concepts, which was also considering implementing the initiative, might have been scared off because of the backlash suffered by UAC.

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