Buhari is making Nigerians hungry again vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari was by profession a soldier. Like many retired military men, he is a farmer by vocation. Given his electoral promises, the situation of the country since he became president and his inclination to be seen as doing something rather than merely marking time by holding a ministerial portfolio, one would have expected him to be either the Minister of Defence or Agriculture.
Laudable enough, one might say! While this decision looked a bit odd considering the assumed independence of the Central Bank in making both fiscal and monetary policies in the overall interest of the economy, it was not necessarily out of order, as the CBN should not be seen to be working at cross-purposes to the overall policy objectives of the government of the day.
The discussion probably drifts into related subjects and bits about the worthiness of organic food and the beauty of cattle herding, with some of the interlocutors asking for the opinion of Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank Governor, on the subject at hand, all the while looking at the president and suggesting to him that only he could drive such a policy.
We cannot afford to depend on others for our basic needs, especially food. We ought not to consume what we cannot produce and if we must import things, such things have to be streamlined under the very close watch of government. That is what other successful countries do. But after many decades of neglecting local food production, the move to be more inward-looking cannot start nor will it be achieved overnight.
Under a so-called Joint Security patrol that includes the military and Nigeria Customs personnel, Nigeria’s borders with her smaller neighbours have been closed in the wake of the presidential directive, supposedly to combat banditry and insurgency, among other cross border crimes.
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