My heart was really burdened this past week by the news from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) that Ghana has overtaken Nigeria as the world's largest exporter of yams. Nigeria has a larger population than Ghana, along with a larger landmass of which a substantial part is very arable. So why is Ghana, with less human and material resources, overtaking us, with more human and material resources? According to Dr. Nobert Maroya, IITA's Project Manager for its Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa project, the reason Ghana has overtaken Nigeria is because Ghana is more organised.

If I was tempted to doubt Dr. Maroya, my doubts disappeared when I saw a comment by a Nigerian to the story when it appeared on nairaland.com. A certain Oleri Smith commented thus "Don't mind those IITA people, what is IITA doing to put Nigeria back into exporting yam." I was taken aback by such a comment, but on second thought, I should have seen it coming. There is such a loss of responsibility in Nigeria that Nigerians, old and young, are very eager to cast blame on others for things that should be their responsibility.

https://allafrica.com/stories/201510261746.html

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