By November 2021, south won't need north for survival, Ohanaeze rolls out strategy for massive food supply
- The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed certainty that the south is capable of producing its own food without the help of the north
- The Igbo social-cultural group said that having survived the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, southeasterners can cope with anything
- The organisation further stated the region is only waiting for the rainy season to embark on mass production of food crops
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The highest socio-cultural group in southeastern Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has revealed its latest strategy for adequate food supply in the region.
Ohanaeze's spokesperson, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, revealed on Wednesday, March 3, that by the rainy season in 2021, farmers in the region with the help of organisations, will mass-produce food crops, Punch reports.
Ogbonnia specifically stated that by June, October, and November 2021, there will be food in all parts of the south.
He was reacting to the issue of food blockade put up by farmers in the north over the alleged killing of their kinsmen in the south.
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The group's mouthpiece added that the south is capable of cultivating and supplying the same amount of food produced by the northerners.
Ogbonnia said that those in the south can survive without the north, recalling that persons from the latter were able to cope during the 30-month civil war.
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His words:
“We are only waiting for the first rain. By the time the first rain comes, all these things they imported from the north, we’ll mass-produce them. By June, October, and November this year, you will see food everywhere in the south.
“So they are helping us to look inward. If three years in Biafra the South-East didn’t die, is it now only one month that we will die? So, I will only say that it is a good development to help the South-East look inward and South-West to look inward also.”
Meanwhile, northern traders had put forward an adamant stance in response to calls for them to allow farm produce get to the southwestern part of Nigeria.
The traders were aggrieved over the news of their kinsmen being harassed and allegedly killed in the southwest.
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