Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says
Nigeria will stop importing rice by next year.
According to Laolu Akande, senior
special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Osinbajo said this
on Sunday at the palace of Musa Dogonkadai, the Seriki of the Hausa community
in Agege, Lagos.
He said leaders of those
countries help their farmers to expand their farms so that they can earn money.
The vice-president said the
federal government, through its anchor borrowers programme, had given over
760,000 farmers soft loans to produce rice, millet and sorghum.
“Look at what is happening in the
north now because of the Anchor Borrowers Programme. We gave many of the
farmers, over 760,000 farmers, soft loans. So, now they are producing rice,
producing millet, producing sorghum,” Osinbajo said.
“We are not importing rice now.
We are bringing rice from Kebbi, from Sokoto, from all over the country. By
next year, we will not import rice. All our rice will be produced here. When
you do that farmers will be rich. Farmers in other countries they are rich
people. They are not poor. I’ve been to a country where farmers own airplanes.
Why? Because their leaders are not thieves. Their leaders help them so that
they can farm; they can expand their farms and they can earn money.
“I went to speak to them in
Kebbi. Two of the farmers came to me and said, since this our government (came
into power), they have been doing very well. One of them said, “now I have my
money, I can pay for my hajj.” Another one even told me that he has married a
second wife and I said no, no. I said don’t do that because one wife is enough.
He said since he is getting some money be can marry a second wife
“But the truth of the matter is
that there is enough money for us in this country. I believe that we must give
President Muhammadu Buhari enough votes to lead this country for four more
years. If he leads this country for four more years, you will see the
difference.”
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