₦airaland Forum

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has attributed the ongoing tomato scarcity in the country to Boko Haram.

The staple has been very expensive in the last two months as a result of acute scarcity, which the federal government blamed on tuta absoluta, a pest also known as ‘tomato ebola’.

Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture, had said the government was making efforts to contain the outbreak which had ravaged six states.

But speaking in an interview on Channels Television, Mohammed said insecurity in the north-east had forced many farmers out of the zone.

“People talk about the price of tomato but they forget one thing; they forget that the price of tomato today is a direct result of the fact that we have lost two years harvest to Boko Haram insurgency,” he said.

“Most of the people you see riding Okada (motorcycles) in Lagos are people who would have been in the farm to produce consumable items.”

When asked if he was convinced that the tomato scarcity could be attributed to insurgency, he said: “Absolutely! Do you farm where there is war? We have lost two seasons of harvest in addition we have had very poor rainfall last year and this year. These are the combined responsible for the scarcity of tomato. Go and ask economists and agriculturists, they will tell you.”

Mohammed also said the prevalence of clashes between farmers and herdsmen was as a result of climate change, saying government refused to heed past warnings on the situation.

“When you look at the herdsmen and farmers clashes, I think its neglect of many years. More than 15, 20 years ago, we were warned all over the world that as a result of climate change there could be conflicts and we should take steps to avert such clashes, but we did not listen,” he said.

“What is happening is that there is a gradual reduction in natural resources. If you take Lake Chad for instance, it has lost almost 90% of its waters over a couple of years and Lake Chad sustained and supported livelihood of farmers and fishers, with the loss of waters, you see a migration southwards. Now government all over the world were warned that these were the consequences of climate change.”

https://www.thecable.ng/boko-haram-responsible-tomato-scarcity-says-lai

Lie Mohammed is an ediot.

heheheheh hahahahahaha hohohohohoho.... please Lai stop it... my stomach hurts. what a comic relief to the tensed economy. Chai. There is No One like you Lai. ABSOLUTELY NO ONE.

When I heard I wasn't disappointed at all

CHAI! So Boko Boys placed an embargo on Tomato supply??

Lai Mohammed-Grade Lies!

bokoharam is also responsible for everything, even the price of rice blame BH, price of patrol blame BH, price of undies blame boko haram, price of menstruation pad blame BKH, our bad roads blame BKH... haba, naija how are we


I pity lia Mohamed in buharis voice.. the man never see anything

If this man was my father,I will make sure my kids don't go near him cos I wouldn't want my kids to be influenced into such a life of lies.

LAI SHOULD JUST BE SACKED!
HERDS MEN - MAURITIUS
TOMATOES -

Geniro:
Lie Mohammed is an ediot.

Neighbour have you blamed GEJ today

Lie, you sure it aint Jonathan? or PDP? or Corruption? ... or Mauritius?

lie lalalalalalaaa

Adesina said its a virus and Lai said its Boko Haram. What's wrong with these guys? I thought the BH war has been won!

Lai muha the yoruba man

OluchiAsonye:
Adesina said its a virus and Lai said its Boko Haram. What's wrong with these guys? I thought the BH war has been won!

u thought? same way lia is lying abt tomatos, was how he lied abt BH

The position na for compensation anyway and not a merit.
That's why he is still on it.
Imagine what dis man is saying after someone from his party already said it disease.

Geniro:
Lie Mohammed is an ediot.

you read my mind. He is always giving illogical explanations

All Propagandist Congress - APC
APC! - Shame! APC! - Shame!

But I thought boko haram have been given technical knockout already or since over two months ago this was announced isn't it sufficient to start producing tomatoes again??

If you feel the presidency claim of boko haram been defeated is totally false click like

kingphilip:
But I thought boko haram have been given technical knockout already or since over two months ago this was announced isn't it sufficient to start producing tomatoes again??

If you feel the presidency claim of boko haram been defeated is totally false click like

Another lie from Lai