CLEM Aboderin's Reflections

When the poor cry out, the Lord hears and saves them from distress - Psalm 34:7

Only God knows how many customers & their allied Sterling Bank must have made victim in the last 8 days in this Nairaless economy

THE CARTELS:
1. Dangote to begin PMS distribution✊
2. NNPCL increase price by N300:00💪
3. Petroleum Minister keep mum.😈
4. Congresses not concerned as long as allowances and constituency allowances are regular.🤷‍♂️🤷🤷‍♂️

The masses are kept in limbo!🙆‍♂️😭

SECURE THE FARMER AND THERE WILL BE FOOD
Dear Mr. President, Messrs. Governors,
If you have not yet realized that Nigeria is now a begging nation looking up to countries at war like Ukraine, Russia, Israeli etc. to come to her aids before she can feed her children, then we are in for it. If you have realized that as stated above and we cannot feel the pulse of your efforts, then you are using indelible mark to write the slogan for Nigeria as FOOD BEGGING NATION.

The reality of our nation is captured by Dona Summer:
Oh, I'm walking faster, faster and faster to nowhere
Oh, I'm running slower, slower and slower to somewhere
'Cause the city's closing tighter and tighter around me
It's a nightmare, daymare, it's a badmare no matter which way-mare
Seems that there must be some way to get out
But I just can't find it

People pushing (Pushing), hustling (Hustling), rushing on into the future
Windows open (Open), closing (Closing), in a way that they just never used to
Oh, there's violence (Violence) lurking (Lurking) in the alleys where no one should dare go
So keep walking (Walking) faster (Faster), faster and faster to nowhere

Trip to nowhere, trip to nowhere, trip to nowhere We're gonna take a little

You may not have realized that our roads network is a nightmare because you guys flies up and down even to your backyard even when there is no need for your needful.
Please think out of the box, be creative, go off the beaten back, break the status quo and break the rules on this matter. You have the fiat sir.
Let me highlight these for you:
1. Secure the farmer and there will be food – The only way to make yams, maize, rice, millet, cassava and potatoes available for feeding hungry Nigerians is by getting the farmers in the food basket states to go back to their farms instead of languishing in the IDS Camp all over.
2. Encourage Storage and Processing facilities and empower genuine investors and farmers in this regard rather than sharing monies and call it palliatives
3. Let your government stop the attitude looking side off but embrace the approach of buying back.
You may need to check these: Invasion Force is required to combat this menace.
1. The use of maximum force is imperative, we either deal with the core of the matter decisively with maximum force or we surrender our sovereignty to the menaces challenging our authority. As at date we are mobbing faster and faster going nowhere if our road network is still a nightmare.
2. Propagate and implement deliberate policy to establish clusters of processing facilities for farm produce to:
a. Add value
b. Facilitate export
c. Deliberate buying back from farmers
ON OUR ROAD NETWORK – Please concession the Federal roads for a period of 25 years with right clause for maintenance and sustainability of the roads

If only our governors too can re-deploy their congregations of SSA and SAs to a viable and well equipped Ministry of Agriculture for a period of Six months for training, then redeploy them to the Local Governments as Agric. Extension officers to work with the farmers for 36 months before you recall them back six months to the end of your tenure and use them for what you initially used them for – Vote canvasser and votes grabbers. This will be hard for you to do because they might no longer be available for your usage as their eyes would have been opened to the economic power of agriculture because the farmer is king and no king will want to become a slave again

Until we have an industrial revolution, Nigeria will continue to japa o!