Shameless Southwest Governors, Clueless Elite and indolent youths.
SOUTHWEST GOVERNORS AND WE YORUBAS AS COLLABORATORS IN THE POVERTY RIDDEN ENVIRONMENT OF OUR REGION.
HUNGERS IN THE REGION HAS JUST STARTED..WE HAVE NOT SEEN NOTHING. …THE SHAMELESS LOTS…
Only God knows what they have used on us.
Please ask yourself:
WHO IS THIS “THEY” if not you crying “Ebi n’pawá oooo😭😭😭
We in the South West have become slaves to the Northern Farmers and slaves to the Igbo Traders.
We keep buying and buying , and only selling our lands and properties in return for our prodigality and senselessness of profligacy.
Our excuses for insecurity are unpardonably flimsy.
There is more insecurity in the North, yet they still manage to produce food that they send to us as hungry thirsty beggarly lots.
What is the technology behind Tomatoes and pepper planting that our arrogantly displayed intellectual prowess cannot be deployed to achieve.
Crop planting has become a duty left to the poor and the lowlies.
Farming has become a strange art to our children in Yoruba land with the past enviable pedigreeas of using cocoa to control the world.
All our Governors in the South West are so fixated to the Federal Allocation forgetting that they can no longer fathom any ways to make funds from agriculture than what they are getting from Abuja.
It is a big shame on us as South Westers in Nigeria.
We that used to plant cash crops like cocoa,cotton, oil palm etc for exports in the past are now finding it extremely difficult to plant tomatoes and pepper.
What a big shame to our leaders, elders and the youths of Yoruba extractions looking helpless in this plaguing realities.
750 million worth of pepper and tomatoes are bought into Lagos on a daily basis from the Northern part of Nigeria majorly for sales. In one month, the people in Lagos spend 22.5 billion only on tomatoes and pepper.
The farmers in the North will not mind the distance and bring these items covering over 700 kilometres to Lagos and go back with billions. Yet the 5 States that surround Lagos will fold their hands and watch helplessly.
There is no state in the southwest that will not be making more than 30 billion monthly as IGR if they can leverage their proximity to Lagos.
We will sit down and generate all manner of excuses and totally not remorrseful.
We are sitting on millions of Hectares of arable land, fertile land, and yet ‘EBI N PA WA’ rented the air with stupid and senseless justification .
Nonsense!.10,000 Cows are killed in Lagos every day. Let us use 400,000 Naira as a benchmark. That is 4 billion daily and 120 billion monthly. What is the rocket science in ranching that we cannot do in the South West to take advantage of this and many more.
Garri is expensive. Apart from Lagos, Ekiti State is the smallest State in the South West, we have 300,000 Hectares of arable land, Oyo State is more than 5 times our size, to achieve 100% supply of annual demand does not require more than 3% of our arable land. We are sitting down doing nothing and joining the stupid euphoria that TINUBU policies are harsh. It is a big shame on YORUBAS with their Governors.
Without counting Lagos, if we put together the landmass of the remaining 5 South West States, it is above 74,000 Kilometre Square.
Remember, Israel is 22 Kilometre Square.
At this time, these 5 states put together have 3 million Hectares of Arable Land.
An outstanding Hectare of Land is about the size of 15 plots of land or about 2.5 acres.
1 Hectare will give you 50 bags of rice.
1 Hectare will give you 100 bags of Garri.
We can imagine the Quantities of Tomatoes and Pepper we can get from just 1 Hectare of Land.
Yet we have 3 million Hectares.
All the states in the South West Geopolitical Zone in total have 137 local government areas. Apart from Kano State, Oyo State has the highest number of local government areas in the whole of Nigeria next to Kano.
The local government areas are the 3rd tier of government, and they have responsibilities to the people as the lowest level of government. They also receive allocations from the centre apart from the IGR.
Let us use 300 million Naira as the average allocation per month. What the 137 of them are collecting cumulatively is about 41 billion Naira.
Let me also quickly add that there are some local government areas in the southwest that are collecting about 1 billion Naira monthly.
The Duties of the Local Government areas according to the 4th Schedule of the 1999 includes food production and agricultural development.
Imagine them putting 15% of their income into Agricultural Development. Cumulatively, we are going to have about 6 billion Naira monthly and about 72 billion Naira annually.
If the local government areas in the southwest age can invest 72 billion into food production in just 1 year, will the food inflation be like these?
Will there not be a massive creation of direct and indirect jobs, MSME development, industrial growth and development, etc.
We will sit down and make flimsy excuses.
Expecting the President to start growing tomatoes inside Aso Rock and sharing it to our homes.
“You” asked about” the “Location of Yoruba” in “the” Economy of” Nigeria
We are at the base of the ladder. We are not doing anything apart from Selling of Properties and Land.
Kwara State is another state that is like the South West States. Being largely Yoruba people, they, too, have our attitude to work.
A State Richly blessed with land, good weather, good topography, lying on the River Niger Basin.
Kwara State alone can meet 25% of the Rice Needs of Nigeria.
There is a local government in Kwara State that is bigger than Ekiti and Lagos States put together.
What are they doing with the land?
The local government I am referring to has over 500,000 Hectares of Land.
I once lived with an uncle in Sobi Barracks, Ilorin. It was there that I learnt how to grow Rice. We used to have 5 big bags of rice produced from our small farm. We were just 2 in Number. We only buy items like salt, palm oil, and a few items from the market.
Our Governors have a lot to do since the land use decree of 1978 had made them the custodians of the land.
