http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathans-acclaimed-success-in-agric-sector-fake-apc/
The All Progressives Congress Presidential
Campaign Organisation on Sunday described
President Goodluck Jonathan administration’s
acclaimed success in the agriculture sector as a
ruse.
The campaign organisation in a statement by its
Director of Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said
the woeful performance of the Jonathan
Administration in the agricultural sector was
evident from its failure to fulfil its promise that
Nigeria would be self-sufficient in rice and wheat
production by 2015.
“President Jonathan has failed woefully in the
agricultural sector, and all the self-praise of the
administration on agriculture is simply a ruse,”
the statement read in part.
The statement also picked hole in the claim of
government that farmers were now having
unhindered access to fertiliser through the Growth
Enhancement Scheme.
It stated that President Jonathan had promised in
2010 to make Nigeria self-sufficient in rice and
wheat production by 2015, however, “the grim
reality on the ground today is that Nigeria
emerged as the world’s highest importer of rice in
2015, and a whopping $11bn is spent annually by
Nigeria to import rice, wheat, sugar and fish.”
The statement also quoted a former Acting
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Sarah
Alade, as saying that Nigeria as at 2014 spent $
4bn on rice importation – “that is about N600bn
annually on the importation of 2.1 million metric
tonnes of milled rice.
“This is after the Federal Government had
approached the China Exim Bank for a loan of $
1.2bn for the financing of 100 large-scale rice
processing plants with a total capacity of 2.1
million metric tonnes.
“The troubling truth today, is that Nigeria is
nothing close to self-sufficiency in rice production
and what we have at hand is a close web of
corruption where government cronies stumble
over each other to get import licences for rice.”
The APC also noted that a similar unacceptable
situation pertained to the importation of wheat,
saying, “According to the Minister of Agriculture
and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina,
Nigeria’s wheat consumption as of year 2,000
was about two million metric tonnes.
“But, by 2010, wheat importation to the country
had risen to four million metric tonnes and Nigeria
spends N635bn annually on wheat importation.
“Five years into the Jonathan’s administration,
Nigeria spends even more than we did in 2010 to
import wheat; yet the government continues to
brandish false achievements in the agricultural
sector – a situation that is completely at variance
with what President Jonathan promised Nigerians
in 2010, saying that his government would make
Nigeria save N635bn annually on rice and wheat
importation.”
On fertiliser accessibility to farmers, the APCPCO
faulted the claim by the government that local
farmers had unhindered access to fertiliser
through the Growth Enhancement Scheme.
On the contrary, the campaign group said what
was getting to each farmer under the e-wallet
arrangement, described as “excessively labourious
and technically difficult for the farmers to work
through” were two bags of fertiliser throughout
the entire farming season.
It added, “And government has not come out in
one instance to tell Nigerians how much it
receives as grants on fertiliser distribution to
farmers from donor agencies.”
“The government will want to give us the
impression that fertiliser is being given to farmers
free of charge. But we know that what subsists is
a 50 per cent subsidy per bag of fertiliser. Our
farmers are being shortchanged under this so-
called e-wallet arrangement because of lack of
transparency.
“We may be looking at another subsidy scam over
fertiliser unless the Jonathan administration
comes out clean to tell us how much it has
received as grants over fertiliser and how it
comes about the 50 per cent subsidy per bag of
fertiliser.”

what do you expect from a party projecting an 83year old man as its presidential candidate?

A serial loser & an illiterate at that?

These fools fail to realize development is a step-by-step process.

Its a pity when you see grown-ups behaving & thinking like toddlers.

[size=28pt] GEJ till 2019 [/size] sha

^^^
Why not counter the claims of APC before brining in the usual PDP line of age, cert,religion etc?

I have always told people around me that the so called revolution is a fake.take the issue of rice for instance.with the various stat been given by Adesina ,I tell you buy now made in Nigerian rice should be the Oder of the day.what do we get .I Still eat Thai rice.even the local Ofada is still very expensive and it is not common in the market..enough of all the fake propaganda on local rice.they even claim now that the local rice are been branded with thai styled packaging .that what we eat atimes are local rice.This is the greatest of all lies.

decode55:


counter what?
To who?

These paid apc e-thugs?



Its like you're new here

I am dear so don't blame me but you need to counter what APC said about the much acclaimed agric reforms in the country.

realnaijaa:
I have always told people around me that the so called revolution is a fake.take the issue of rice for instance.with the various stat been given by Adesina ,I tell you buy now made in Nigerian rice should be the Oder of the day.what do we get .I Still eat Thai rice.even the local Ofada is still very expensive and it is not common in the market..enough of all the fake propaganda on local rice.they even claim now that the local rice are been branded with thai styled packaging .that what we eat atimes are local rice.This is the greatest of all lies.

Do you mind the ruling party with it's reeling of stats everyday that doesn't touch the life of the ordinary man on the street.

decode55:


I'd rather use my time for something else

Running off i guess, supporting with no basis.

Sometimes I get the feeling God has a hand in all these, He doesn't want to leave us in the dark, He's exposing all the wicked manipulations of the saTANoids.... God na elele.

decode55:
what do you expect from a party projecting an 83year old man as its presidential candidate?

A serial loser & an illiterate at that?

These fools fail to realize development is a step-by-step process.


[size=28pt] GEJ till 2019 [/size] sha

oga help me enlighten these semi-illiterates