‘Famine Likely In Nigeria By 2015’

L-R: Members of Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Onari Brown, Hon Hope Ikiriko and Hon Otelemaba Amachree, exchanging ideas during a sitting of the House, last Monday.

An Agricultural expert and director of Songhai farm, Benin Republic, Rev. Father Godfrey Nzamujo says Nigeria faces the risk of food crisis by 2015 if the current trend in population growth is not checked.

Rev. Father Nzamujo made the prediction at the 2009 Economic Empowerment and Development Day organised by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) in Port Harcourt. He regretted that food production in Nigeria has been on the decline as a result of poor policy formulation and implementation by those in positions of authority.

The cleric said that Nigerian authorities must design a model that will integrate the rural communities into the mainstream of the nation’s economy.

According to him, local governments and villages must be made centres of productivity, while government must embark on human capacity development.

In his speech, the managing director of Multimesh Communition Limited, Sir Godfrey Ohabunwa regretted that Nigeria has remained one of the poorest countries in the world in spite of her abundant human and material resources.

Sir Ohabunwa urged for the development of vocational education in the country, while the private sector should partner with the government to check the growing rate of poverty in the country.