No need banning anything again!! Let the price determine the demand. They should simply equip drug and food agency better to make sure the consumables are fit for consumption.

Ndi ara who think they are smart because the South refused to unite....!!

A sachet of tomato paste is now between ₦120-150.
What will be the effect should there be a ban?
I don't understand why our so called leaders of thought know nothing except Ban, Fine, Tax and Waiver.
Pls, is there no better way to develop an economy?

Una wan turn tomato to rice abi Ban kee you dia






If I hear peem again all gods will b unleash

Dangote will milk us to death

#EndBadGovernance

VeeVeeMyLuv:
my broda help us ask the president and his advisers, they are the ones responsible for the high cost of rice. Bag of rice is not supposed to be more than N15k

one thing I still don't understand is, why the border closure? Will it remain closed for next 3years?. Lets go for #openbordernownow.

If it will take the price back to 2 for 50 naira, no wahala

You are planning to monopolize tomato, then make Nigerians suffer by increasing the price just as you did to rice, cement and others.

Ogun kill you there!!! Mr MD. Later you will hold us on ransom and start selling it at a very high cost just like the way Nigeria rice farmers made us to believe that they can produce rice that will be sufficient for Nigerians unknown that they were laying ambush for hungry Nigerians who likes to eat rice. Now foreign rice and local rice are competing on who cost pass.

As usual so u can have monopoly abi?

#Endnepotism

Benwallt:
one thing I still don't understand is, why the border closure? Will it remain closed for next 3years?. Lets go for #openbordernownow.

it is closed to the public, but these same people go behind the scene and import the same banned rice turning the whole thing to a family business and sell to the public at very high exorbitant prices like 200-300% cost price.

chamboy:
it should be ban. I'll show you video soon.

it can't work. Banning of more things will lead to protest and rioting... Tell me what has become of rice after more than one year

They should ban it so that you will monopolize the market and kill us with exorbirant prices for rubbish just like we have for rice abi

chamboy:
it should be ban. I'll show you video soon.

it can't work. Banning of more things will lead to protest and rioting... Tell me what has become of rice after more than one year

Monopoly

VeeVeeMyLuv:
it is closed to the public, but these same people go behind the scene and import the same banned rice turning the whole thing to a family business and sell to the public at very high exorbitant prices like 200-300% cost price.

can you imagine the profit while millions of ppl wallow in poverty n hunger. I find this quite disturbing if true.

dangote rice wey dem ban nobe hunger de kill us so, now you no wan make we enjoy tomatoes

Fourwinds:
it can't work. Banning of more things will lead to protest and rioting... Tell me what has become of rice after more than one year

We need to grow the local market first and completely get rid of the international market.

Bans on importation of anything he ventures into is how he made his wealth. That will soon end.
There has to be an equal playing field for all Nigerian entrepreneurs.

Local Products can't grow overnight, no way on earth.

Any country with good mindset for his people will always take a strong standpoint on clamping down on importation that is bartadizing their economy.

Trying to force the south to patronize the north so they are dependent on them. Let the south control resources and choose where they buy from.

Matrimonous:
That's how he made his wealth. That will soon end.

Tomato is an open market, if you want to join no one is stopping you. Self hate will kill us in Africa.

TheOtherRoom:
Monopoly

He is kicking out the white benefactors. We should be happy we're enriching our own

chamboy:
Local Products can't grow overnight, no way on earth.

Any country with good mindset for his people will always take a strong standpoint on clamping down on importation that is bartadizing their economy.

Importation isn't bastardizing economy as much as nepotism. Will I have land in the north to farm like a northerner ? They take your oil, give you some of the earnings then make you buy food from them with what they gave you. That is bastardization.

chamboy:
We need to grow the local market first and completely get rid of the international market.

Oga...i said it won't work... My blood dey boil.... Tell me why rice hasn't come down.... To be sincere tomorrow I'm going to NEPA office to tell them something

StaffofOrayan:
Don't be surprised Buhari would listen sharply

yes, he will. Buhari administration is fully into trapping the naira in Nigeria.

Fourwinds:
Oga...i said it won't work... My blood dey boil.... Tell me why rice hasn't come down.... To be sincere tomorrow I'm going to NEPA office to tell them something

You think na miracle, if you want miracle go to TB joshua.

It won't work because an average Nigeria don't like Nigerian Made Products and How many Nigerians are into farming sef. We need to start saying the truth to ourselves joo.

uruba23:

Let get something clear Mr Abdulkarim Kaita is not Alhaji Dangote and the problem of Tomato processing goes beyond that small plant at the outskirt of Kano. There is nothing wrong in demanding a ban on importation of Tomato but have we put the necessary tools in place to ensure tomatoes in our rural areas are converted to paste so as to increase their shelf life before getting to the main plants, do we have cottage processing unit in our local governments.I know the Chinese keep dumping on us but to be candid this is not the time or place for this now.

Erisco group was producing the paste but got no concession from govt. Hence, they left the country.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/erisco-foods-shuts-down-relocates-to-china/

Same way they did for you on cements and handed over Nigerians to you. You want to make tomato expensive again. God punish that your mouth.

CodeTemplar:
Importation isn't bastardizing economy as much as nepotism. Will I have land in the north to farm like a northerner ? They take your oil, give you some of the earnings then make you buy food from them with what they gave you. That is bastardization.

In one word, you prefer a white man to make money more than your fellow blacks.

If we continue to tribalise this things we won't go anywhere.

chamboy:
He is kicking out the white benefactors. We should be happy we're enriching our own

Monopoly is Monopoly... And Monopoly is bad for a place such as our country.
Heck the satchet tomatoes he makes which was 60naira is now 100 Naira over night

chamboy:
yes, he will. Buhari administration is fully into trapping the naira in Nigeria.

Whatever makes you a Buharist is fine with me