Lai Mohammed: Boko Haram responsible For Tomatoes Scarcity

According to the minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ongoing scarcity of Tomatoes Nationwide should be attributed to the Boko Haram insurgents.

While speaking to Channels Tv correspondent during a live interview, Mohammed said insecurity in the north-east is basically the cause of the Tomatoes Ebola we are experiencing as many farmers are  no longer comfortable while most of them had flee the zone a long time ago.

In his words “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.”

Meanwhile,The scarcity of tomatoes and hike in its price nationwide had been of great concern to many Nigerians this year.

however, the minister of agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, had said the government was making efforts to contain the outbreak which had ravaged six states.

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