What is wrong with Nigeria and its people? A sane question most people have asked for decades but little have figured out the problems. Those who have the amicable solution and well placed in positions to truly effect change are either been rigged out, threatened or even killed.
Tragic you would say, but there's more to the complex web of Nigeria's challenges and food crises is one of them which the incumbent president must deal with immediately.
Before taking over the mantle of leadership, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made a series of promises and swiftly took action by removing fuel subsidy in his first day in office. Taking that action was bold and cold because no alternative was given.
The effect was an immediate increase in fuel which resulted in an increase in the cost of transportation of both perishable and imperishable goods. Businesses which where reliant on generators for power packed up while well established businesses were forced to retrench workers or pack up.
Fuel did play a massive role but other factors like bandits killing farmers in their farmland, kidnappers on the roads, police extortion on the roadside, dwindling value of the naira, food hoarders and the currently closed borders affected food.
Once the government can seriously address the following factors food will be rampant in Nigeria.
Security and food crises go hand in hand. Farmers want to go their respective farmers without fear or intimidation. They don't want to be killed by Fulani marauders in their respective farms nor do they want to fall victims of communal clashes.
There's no denying that Nigeria is one of richest country in the world with abundant natural resources and highly skilled workers but due to poor leadership, terrorism and wild spread corruption in every fabric of the society, the country has continuously failed to live up to expectation.
The election of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria witnessed one of the worst electoral manipulations in history which was accompanied by intimidation, violence and death. The president lacks the foresight or intelligence to deal with prevailing issues affecting Nigeria at the moment.
Removing fuel subsidy without a backup plan resulted in the cost of production in all sectors of the economy. The closure of foreign owned business, lay off of workers, increment of prices in produced goods and even naturally processed food.
Food crises is as a result of the president's poor economic policy. People can't afford to buy food because the means of livelihood is extremely low. Nigerians survive by a $1 a day which is not adequate to cater for a single person talk more of family.
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