The
honourable of minister of agriculture, Chief
Audu Ogbe, and his Indian counterpart, Shri
Radha Mohan Singh, visited the Nigeria High Commission, New Delhi, and
walking just a few steps behind them was His
Excellency Major General Chris Owushi Eze, the Nigerian High Commissioner
to India with a concurrent accreditation to Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
The
Embassy's Conference Hall, venue of the meeting, was set aglow by the sunlight
that baked the hall hot between 11:00 a.m and 1:00 p.m. They interacted with
Nigerians who chronicled in stories the drips of all their lives in India: the
exploitation and their challenges. The duo couldn't disguise the fact that good
number of Nigerians are suffering abroad. It is something so ugly they wished
they could kick it away like a soccer ball, watch it spin off into some distant
orbit that has nothing to do with Nigerians.
As the
Minister rose to catch his flight to Bangalore, where he was expected to meet
with Indian investors on a capacity building program in agriculture related
areas, he left behind something clearer than the mind alone could imagine: that
the government is ambitious, and his visit to India to procure three thousand
Tractors for the farming season only shows President Buhari's trudging determination
to enhance food sufficiency for Nigerians; sufficiently enough to feed the rest
of Africa!
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