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Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by RayRay06677(m): 11:31am On Feb 20

Ance4Liverpool:
Very stupid idea, why not emulate obasanjo and build his type of farm in your state that will employ over 20k youths and equaly produce enough food for ur citizens instead of embarking on a foolish policy that will favor few of ur party members.

The farm is under construction, visited Cotonou on his first month in office for that purpose

For those that don't know, the massive construction site at nsit ubium on uyo road is the farm.

So say another stupid thing.

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Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by yarimo(m): 11:32am On Feb 20

Okwyjesus:

Abia is a state NOT LGA or WARD

Next time don't bring letter without Letter headed paper to me.

is the LGA not governd my a state governor? Is the LGA not part of ABIA STATE?

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Inspirer1: 11:38am On Feb 20

Ance4Liverpool:
Very stupid idea, why not emulate obasanjo and build his type of farm in your state that will employ over 20k youths and equaly produce enough food for ur citizens instead of embarking on a foolish policy that will favor few of ur party members.

I guess your suggestion should be a long term goal which can start concurrently with this one, what he wants to do is commendable in the short term considering the current situation of things

As a matter of fact, ALL Governors in the Southern part of the country should go by your suggestion as well as what Governor Umo Eno wants to do now

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by chidiokay: 12:25pm On Feb 20

Ance4Liverpool:
Very stupid idea, why not emulate obasanjo and build his type of farm in your state that will employ over 20k youths and equaly produce enough food for ur citizens instead of embarking on a foolish policy that will favor few of our party members.

Since 1999 till now, how many food products in the market are from Obasanjo farm,

Obj, saraki & likes production are for export farm produce, dey play

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by enambobo(m): 12:37pm On Feb 20

Olaide1295:
People will love this but it will cause a problem in the long term. There is no increase in supply of food. Just using government money to buy in bulk and drive prices up for other states.
Subsidies are simply not sustainable. A sustainable move will be to use that money for mechanized farming that will employ people, produce more food and naturally reduce food prices (due to increased supply).

ONLY increase in supply of food will reduce prices.

You are correct that it is not sustainable. However, this is just an emergency option. What people need now is food to sustain them during this period of hardship. Nobody is ready to wait till the food grows before they eat.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by morgstreme: 1:13pm On Feb 20

fidelmarshal199:

If Obasanjo farm is as productive as you make it seems, then Ogun state won't have any concern bout hunger. Ogun state was where the protest took off

Don't mind the obtuse thing!

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by YoshihideSuga: 1:41pm On Feb 20

Olaide1295:
People will love this but it will cause a problem in the long term. There is no increase in supply of food. Just using government money to buy in bulk and drive prices up for other states.
Subsidies are simply not sustainable. A sustainable move will be to use that money for mechanized farming that will employ people, produce more food and naturally reduce food prices (due to increased supply).

ONLY increase in supply of food will reduce prices.

The only person who understands basic economics. The rest love communism, but complain when there's no money to fund their excesses.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Tonididdyx: 1:42pm On Feb 20

Ance4Liverpool:
Very stupid idea, why not emulate obasanjo and build his type of farm in your state that will employ over 20k youths and equaly produce enough food for ur citizens instead of embarking on a foolish policy that will favor few of ur party members.

Emm Mr wiseman, is a bag of rice cheaper in otta?

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by YoshihideSuga: 1:46pm On Feb 20

Beautifulday:

He has his own farming policy. If you want to farm in Akwa ibom now, free machines. Just fuel it. Subsized farm lease.

How many is Obasanjo farm feeding Ogun state.

Ogun has more farms than Obasanjo but the state still lack cheap food.

Serious? So, an agro company can hire those machines on lease to work on a farmland in Akwa Ibom State?

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by YoshihideSuga: 1:48pm On Feb 20

Meteng:
He’s building that type of farm already in the state. It’s a multi pronged approach

Where please? What kind of crops are cultivated there?

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by YoshihideSuga: 1:49pm On Feb 20

RayRay06677:

The farm is under construction, visited Cotonou on his first month in office for that purpose

For those that don't know, the massive construction site at nsit ubium on uyo road is the farm.

So say another stupid thing.

Interesting. So, what kind of crops would be cultivated there? Any private sector involvement or it's strictly government owned?

Thanks.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by viodemus: 1:50pm On Feb 20

The naira compression continues.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Essentialniga: 2:19pm On Feb 20

easyfem:
I don’t understand this our leader , them Dey smoke ? . Aw can u decided to go to market and tell them the price they shud sell when u are not making the food process available for the marketers , no good road to take the food from rural area to urban area , no electricity for farmer , no security for farmer and many more , and u just wake up to fix a price of commodities, this pple no get sense ?

He wants to establish a " state bulk purchase agency ", so the state can like apply economics of scale to purchase food products, and then can afford to sell at relatively lower prices to the masses.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by cosmos1440: 2:30pm On Feb 20

Ance4Liverpool:
Very stupid idea, why not emulate obasanjo and build his type of farm in your state that will employ over 20k youths and equaly produce enough food for ur citizens instead of embarking on a foolish policy that will favor few of ur party members.

The way some of you make false and bold claims makes you sound foolish, but you have no one to tell you.
Who told you that Obasanjo employs 20,000 people on his farm ?

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Juoflife1(f): 2:31pm On Feb 20

Remove Abia State from your dirty smelly mouth

yarimo:
This is very commendable from akwa ibom state governor, while his colleague in ABIA STATE always busy perfecting dubious ways to defraud the state.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by commoditiesnig: 2:45pm On Feb 20

State Bulk Purchasing Agency

Good action by Akwa ibom Governor

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by effty(m): 2:58pm On Feb 20

yarimo:
This is very commendable from akwa ibom state governor, while his colleague in ABIA STATE always busy perfecting dubious ways to defraud the state.

What do you know?

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by obotematics: 3:25pm On Feb 20

Great move Mr governor ,
My take is simply increase agro production, processing and supply before these,
Let's imagine having 360 clusters in 4 senatorial district.Giving rural f@rmers Direct access to improved seedlings ,ImPRoved varieties, encouraging carbon trading, green precision farming by farmers .fertilisers, tractors and processing hubs, marketing will be made easy, price control boards created virtually and physically. We can be great again.
Akwa Ibom must be great again!

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by PHAYOL81: 3:25pm On Feb 20

Another short term measure. What happens to securing thousands of hectares of land for farming of essential crops with highly mechanized system coupled with high yielding seeds？

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Nicepoker(m): 3:35pm On Feb 20

You want to subsidize what you can't produce grin

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by yarimo(m): 3:49pm On Feb 20

Juoflife1:
Remove Abia State from your dirty smelly mouth

I don't like elephant at all grin

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by sylve11: 4:02pm On Feb 20

RepoMan007:
this can come later. If food grown with oil money can be Bought by foreigners, I support this move.

Abi o.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by sylve11: 4:05pm On Feb 20

Browndiary:
Press Release

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, true to his people -centric ways and commitment to seeing to the amelioration of the plight of the people has stated that the Bill for the establishment of the State Bulk Purchasing Agency, which is currently in the House of Assembly, is meant to ensure that the price of staple food items are within the reach of the people.

“We will buy the food items in bulk and ensure that they are made available to our people at relatively lower prices. The process will be transparent.

“I want to thank the House of Assembly for the expeditious manner this Bill is being treated. I want to assure our people that we feel their pain and are working hard to ensure that food security for our people is guaranteed.

“ That’s why they voted for me overwhelmingly and as you know, I came from this stock and I feel their pain completely.

“ I appeal to our people to exercise patience while the House of Assembly is working to pass the Bill, which would be immediately signed into law by me” the Governor had stated while fielding questions from Government House Correspondents.

Ekerete Udoh
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
February 19, 2024

Good move, Mr governor. Just ensure that while you're on this, have it in mind to do/encourage mechanized farming. The abundance of food will drive down the price of food drastically. cool

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Difa0816(m): 4:13pm On Feb 20

Always say what u kno, akwa Ibom state has good road so bad road ain't a disadvantage to this. The move is quite ok as some marketers always take opportunity in every little things, why should pure water be sold for 50box per sachet for instance

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by MasterTeeUSA: 4:52pm On Feb 20

I agree...if these Govs start clearing forest for planting....prices of food will begin to drop...what are they doing with all the money they collect...clear or buy lands directly from landowners...you make your people rich, then make those lands state lands...clear them and fence them...you will automatically have access to land for investors to come in and use...then lease the land for Agriculture...and the states will be making money annually.

For example: Buy 1,000 hectares of land for N1m per hectare...that is N1billion
Fence it around...spend another N2billion
Allocate 1 hectare each for Agriculture for N100k bringing in N100m a year
Regulate and tax the produce, flood the market....

Rinse and Repeat...Govt can also sponsor or look for sponsors to pay the first year lease for some farmers.

Landowners will also make money and they can relocate or move to the cities. Make the Kings the custodians...they get 10% of annual lease money.

Ance4Liverpool:
Very stupid idea, why not emulate obasanjo and build his type of farm in your state that will employ over 20k youths and equaly produce enough food for ur citizens instead of embarking on a foolish policy that will favor few of ur party members.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Forkthiefnubu: 4:58pm On Feb 20

fidelmarshal199:

If Obasanjo farm is as productive as you make it seems, then Ogun state won't have any concern bout hunger. Ogun state was where the protest took off

Don’t mind him , look at his tone calling the idea stupid, these oil soupers really believe in this their assumed superiority, they really think the world of themselves

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by PerkyJay: 5:58pm On Feb 20

Ance4Liverpool:
Very stupid idea, why not emulate obasanjo and build his type of farm in your state that will employ over 20k youths and equaly produce enough food for ur citizens instead of embarking on a foolish policy that will favor few of ur party members.

There is a farm in process already. Ibom industrial farm, located in Nsit Ubium LGA. He is embarking on this project to ameliorate the sufferings in the mean time while the mega farm project is being set up. Calm down. Akwa Ibom State no be person mate. If you want o invest, chat me up mek I show you what we have. The most peaceful state.

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Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Pascal9: 6:05pm On Feb 20

Over population, the food is no longer enough for Hungry efuluefus, millions of alamajiri, and those that born and keep for their mamma , and those that Bleep and procreate like rats with the belief that God will train them. it will not get better untill we control our population.

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Meteng: 7:42pm On Feb 20

YoshihideSuga:

Where please? What kind of crops are cultivated there?

Nsit Ubium LGA. Pilot Songhai farm. This I understand is going to be replicated in all the Federal Constituencies

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Iamzik: 8:24pm On Feb 20

Ance4Liverpool:
Very stupid idea, why not emulate obasanjo and build his type of farm in your state that will employ over 20k youths and equaly produce enough food for ur citizens instead of embarking on a foolish policy that will favor few of ur party members.

State government has no business with farming. Nothing the government own is ever run well

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Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by Cromagnon: 9:41pm On Feb 20

axglide:

Mr criticism, you’re criticizing without giving constructive solutions or remedy. The state wants to subsidize food for its citizens you’re here saying it’s a stupid idea.

how will they subsidise? Why will farmer sell for 5k when he can sell for 10k in the market or govt will be seizing ppls sweat? What will they size when farmers stop producing due to govt theft? Do you think before you support failed govt policy?

Re: Gov Eno’s Bold move to reduce the Prices of Staple Food in Akwa Ibom State by RayRay06677(m): 9:58pm On Feb 20

YoshihideSuga:

Interesting. So, what kind of crops would be cultivated there? Any private sector involvement or it's strictly government owned?

Thanks.

https://akwaibomstate.gov.ng/aibom-govt-songhai-farm-sign-mou-for-special-agricultural-investments/

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