President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday,
August 7, said that the time has come for
Nigerians to do more than pay mere lip
service to agriculture, as crude oil and gas
exports will no longer be sufficient as the
country’s major revenue earner. Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the
president on media and publicity, said the
leader of the country made the declaration at
an audience with Dr Kanayo Nwanze, the
Nigerian-born president of the International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), at
the presidential villa, Abuja “It’s time to go back to the land. We must
face the reality that the petroleum we had
depended on for so long will no longer suffice.
We campaigned heavily on agriculture, and we
are ready to assist as many as want to go
into agricultural ventures,” the president said.
He also pledged that his administration would
also cut short the long bureaucratic processes
that the Nigerian farmers have to go through
to get any form of assistance from
government.
President Buhari also told the IFAD president
that improvement of the productivity of
farmers, dry season farming and creative ways
to combat the shrinking of the Lake Chad
would also receive the attention of his
administration. Meanwhile, still in his bid to bring change to
Nigeria, President Buhari has ordered the
ministry to produce a plan for the
establishment of a military industrial complex
for the local production of weapons for the
needs of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
The president gave the directive at the
graduation ceremony of the National Defence
College, Abuja , through his media aide, Garba
Shehu.

Naij.com

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