ekt_bear: Diabetes is not a good reason?

What of the reason they proposed that people should be free to eat what they want, w/o being forced?

I agree with the lawmakers..

gbadexy: I dont know about the economic jargons,but i know that this policy was a well intentioned one that would encourage farming and create more jobs.besides that mean we will be eating bread with sufficient fiber.i think 30% cassava wont overly alter the bread taste and texture

noiseless: Haa haaa! And that is what you call speaking Igbo? I know a lot of your Yoruba and hausa brothers/sister who speak better. I have told you if you have something to tell your brothers just do it with boldness, you really don't need to hide behind igbo id to do so, that is called cowardice and hypocricy.

noiseless: A lot of posters are vomiting sh1t on this topic mainly because the casava is no from "WHITEMAN COUNTRY", that is the nigerian mentality "i don't want to be seen eating inferior local products" and it doesn't matter whether they are actually inferior quality or of very good quality and affordable too, as long as they are not made in "OYIBO COUNRTRY WITH OYIBO LABEL". Yet here is a country where about 8 in 10 of the populations live below 1 dollar a day.

flexya:
My kindren, I am wit u. If they want 2 encourage consumption of cassava, then bakeries should flood the market wit cassava composite bread. If its cheap enough, ppl will buy....and it should be cheap enough since the cassava flour is not imported. It must be a choice thing like brown bread vs white bread

The govt on the other hand should offer incentives (tax/loan incentives) to bakers that include cassava in their bread production.

(He lawmakers got the answer right bt the calculation (ie the satistics cited) was wrong.

gabe: they stopped the single sensible thing GEJ has done because of diabetes?! some bakers add alloxan, a drug used to CAUSE diabetes in bread to make it white. I haven't heard these dolts saying anything about that,here's a thought, SCRAP THE LEGISLATURE. we can take care of ourselves.

gbadexy: I dont know about the economic jargons,but i know that this policy was a well intentioned one that would encourage farming and create more jobs.besides that mean we will be eating bread with sufficient fiber.i think 30% cassava wont overly alter the bread taste and texture

Beaf: Diabetes is quite a silly reason to hold the nation back. Those lawmakers are only there to feather their own nests.

In fact, giving diabetes as an excuse is just daft; there is enough research to show that there is no link between cassava and diabetes. In fact some studies promote cassava as part of the diet for diabetics, because of its low glycemic index.

Bontee: @ballabriggs

We can go on and on but the problem does not lie with the president alone as he is not entirely the know it all to do everything. That is why we have ministers for education, science and technology etc to work together and make such policies in a collaborative effort to boost and develop the economy. I agrem
e with your points but in a society as Nigeria with divergent interest then it becomes a problem to develop a comprehensive plan.

The civil war and the direction Nigeria took later is the cause of all our problems, we do not have our usual three to five years development plan anymore.We need linkages in this country and doubt if we have a comprehensive laid out national innovation and development system in place. When we start to attack the president alone because of party, ethnic or religious affiliations, we become distracted from the focus and will never do what is right. This should have been an avenue where people should have come together to develop a policy paper concerning this issues but we are busy attacking the president and trying to show our intellectual prowess.

P:S Nairaland should have been a think-tank for Nigeria policy formulation and development but this distractive arguments everyday is the problem of this site.

Bontee: @ballabriggs

We can go on and on[size=13pt] but the problem does not lie with the president alone as he is not entirely the know it all to do everything. That is why we have ministers for education, science and technology etc to work together and make such policies in a collaborative effort to boost and develop the economy.[/size] I agree with your points but in a society as Nigeria with divergent interest then it becomes a problem to develop a comprehensive plan.

al-ahamad:
@Beaf nd alh_harem.....along side others who support the retardeens failed mental capacity to reason well enough nd use his brain rather than his sh.it box...

Aside the health disadvantages acrued to dis disaster he wants to "MANDATE" people into, what happened to Human rights?......why would I want to eat bread nd I'll have to consume cassava along the line when in naija, there's Eba, Akpu, fufu nd a host of other dishes made from the same casava?

The president nd his advisers can go to hell with their stu.pidity.....we have more pressing issues to tackle nd not some baseless debates that will only end up causing health hazards to people.

Beaf: GEJ should simply ban the importation of wheat by executive fiat.

We can't continue living in stup!dity. Today, we laugh at "Igbo made," we laugh at cassava too (because whites use wheat). It is the very same national low self-esteem epidemic I always talk about.

Imagine some clowning legislator giving diabetes as a lame excuse for economic sabotage and the continued seige on the millions of poor farmers who were about to be given a life changing break and a stake in society; he even shamelessly lied that 30-40% of Nigerians are diabetic! Well, cassava has nothing to do with diabetes apart from the legislators expected ignorance.