Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has predicted severe hunger in Nigeria in 2023 if Ukraine-Russia war persists.
Ayade made the prediction on Sunday as he flagged off the first dry run for the 2022 Carnival Calabar since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, lamenting that the war between Ukraine and Russia has led to scarcity of grains and that it would worsen in the coming year.“I see a harbinger of scarcity, hunger and pain, pushing people to their zenith in terms of criminality and animalism.
Ayade said the theme of the carnival was carefully chosen with a view to sending a message to the global community that Africans could depend on themselves for food as he decried the high dependence for food by African countries on western nations inspite of the vast arable land God has blessed the continent with.
Earlier, the Executive Secretary of Calabar Carnival Commission, Mr. Austin Cobham, described the dry run as the mother of all dry runs due the additional bands in the carnival.
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