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Okechukwu Onuegbu
Following the lingering economic recession,
a foremost Social Critic and Director, Nworah Hilltop Hospital and Maternity,
Eye Services, Amawbia, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Prof A.B.C
Nworah has enjoined Nigerians to re-embrace farming.
Nworah, who spoke to News48hour.com in his office, also urged the government at all level to negotiate
with the land owners and reach definite agreements with them before acquiring or
lending their lands for onward distribution or sharing to the graduate and
non-graduate farmers with a view to encouraging mass production of food and
other agribusiness.
According to the Professor of Gynaecology,
the governments should also empower intending farmers with loans and other
agricultural inputs, as well as provide social amenities and housing units in
the farming areas so that the enterprising graduates will not feel rusticated
from civilization.
He also called on the government,
the mission and private individuals to establish schools, industries of all
kinds, and other economic activities at rural areas rather than concentrating
mainly on cities as a way of encouraging demographic movements from cities to
the villages.
These and others he said would enable
everyone, including the farmers, consumers, governments, communities, and various
organisations to see it as an investments to correct the economic hardship, as
well as diversification mechanism.
While extolling the federal
government on the war against corruption, Prof. Nworah lamented that Nigerians were
suffering of multimillion naira stolen funds perpetrated by some dishonest individuals,
even as he called for immediate restructuring of salaries of the public office holders
like the legislators.
On the menace of Fulani herdsmen, he
advised Nigeria to learn from advanced countries and establish cattle ranches as
it was absurdity for cows to share the same streets, roads, farms and pathways
with the people in the East.
That was even as he called on the
Southeast governors to come together and restructure their vigilante service
groups for more proactive with the police and other teeming security outfits as
ways of stopping general security threats.
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