Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the activities
of Boko Haram insurgents in the North East is responsible for the
scarcity of tomatoes being experienced in Nigeria presently. Lai
Mohammed said this in an interview with Channels TV yesterday June 1st.
“People talk about the price of tomato but they forget one thing; they
forget that the price of tomato today is a direct result of the fact
that we have lost two years harvest to Boko Haram insurgency.
Most of the people you see riding Okada (motorcycles)
in Lagos are people who would have been in the farm to produce
consumable items. Do you farm where there is war? We have lost two
seasons of harvest, in addition we have had very poor rainfall last year
and this year. These are the combined factors responsible for the
scarcity of tomato. Go and ask economists and agriculturists, they will
tell you.”he said
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