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Worried about the looming danger of
food insecurity in Nigeria, former President
Olusegun Obasanjo has called on the Federal
Government to, as a matter of urgency, ban
importation of vegetables, carrots, cucumber,
lettuce and other fruits into the nation.
Obasanjo, made the call weekend at the
International Institute for Tropical Agriculture
(IITA), in Ibadan at the inaugural meeting of the
'Nigeria Zero Hunger Strategic Review'
Committee, comprising representatives of the
World Food Programme, African Development
Bank, members of the diplomatic corps, captains
of industry as well as technocrats drawn from
both the public and private institutions across the
country.
Addressing the forum, Obasanjo, who is also the
convener of the initiative, called for collective
change of mind from all Nigerians, insisting that a
multi-stakeholder and multi-dimensional approach
is highly desirable to achieve the goal of a zero
hunger nation by 2025 ahead of the 2030
deadline given by the United Nations.
The former president said, "It is going to take the
collective effort of each and every citizen of this
great nation and our partners. It will require our
collective change of mindset to at first identify
the opportunities that abound. It is in this context
that we have invited you to this meeting."

Obasanjo expressed worry that in spite of the
present high rate of unemployment in Nigeria,
the vegetables, cucumber, carrots, lettuce and
other fruits being consumed in many hotels in the
country are imported saying this is not only
disgraceful to the economic sense of the nation
but also annoying.
He charged the Federal Government to stop
importation of European vegetables and fruits
without further delay, in the overall interest of
Nigerians.

allafrica.com/stories/201605020634.html

"Ex-president"

Yes
Put money back into the pocket of local farmers.

MondeLuv:
"Ex-president"

My bad, Typo

Good to hear this from Baba Obasanjo, he should have stopped the importation of fruits when he was the president. My own opinion though

E be like say importation don dey affect baba farm biznez

I don't want sour oranges from Obasanjo farms. No thanks-

Old crook
these are the set of animals that could have changed the destiny of over 100million nigerian

stevecantrell:
I don't want sour oranges from Obasanjo farms. No thanks-

That's pretty harsh. Baba only grows the best

I swear there must be something in Nigeria sits of power that once u occupy it... U fail to see the problems u saw before and u can't fix them. .. . And once u leave u begin to see things normally again

A sacrifice of 7000 boko boys head and 2000 pipeline vandals and 1000 fulani herdsmen is needed. ... the gods have spoken

Movic1:
E be like say importation don dey affect baba farm biznez

I thought as much. When he was there what did He do about it?

Movic1:
E be like say importation don dey affect baba farm biznez

I thought as much

Movic1:
E be like say importation don dey affect baba farm biznez

I thought as much. when he was there what did he do about it?

If done, it will encourage a lot of unemployed youths to go into farming so as to meet up with the demand. This model ought to be replicated in every sector of the economy where we can fill in the demand gap seamlessly.

With the fragile nature of the crude oil market, this is the only way out. Though it seems the government is more interested in generating more revenue through multiple taxation, in order to fund the lavish lifestyle of the executhieves and legislooters

This old fox made sense for once. I hope Buharis lapdogs in the presidency won't lash back at him the way they did Ezekwesili.