World Igbo Congress

FOOD AND THE FUTURE OF THE IGBO

There is an urgent for all Igbo responsible governments and entrepreneurs who have Igbo land at heart and who want to restore the dignity of Ndi Igbo to rise to the

challenge of the new war facing Ndigbo. It beats our imagination that 90% of our food today, from yam, cow meat, goat meat, dry fish. onions, tomato, vegetable salad etc., come from the axis of evil. It is time we reflected on history and imagine the image of millions of our children condemned to early death as a result of a well calculated policy of the enemy to use food blockade as a weapon to break our fighting spirit during the 30 months of hostilities against Ndi Igbo in Biafra. How can we forget the deadly malnutrition called kwashiorkor so early and easily without fortifying our homeland and our children with aggressive self-sufficiency in food production? Mohandas Gandhi, the father of modern India started by advocating self-sufficiency in food production through communalism. He saw the villages as the core of the true India and promoted self-sufficiency. India using the economic principles of comparative advantage, grew to become a very developed country she has become today.

Who will bell the cat for Ndi Igbo. Without self-sufficiency in food production the future of the Igbo is in the palm of the north, our most vicious foes in the Nigerian experiment. What are we doing? This question is for Ohanaeze, our governors, our federal appointees, our legislators, our intellectuals, our traditional leaders, Diaspora Igbo (including WIC) and, indeed, ALL IGBO. We must look for our black goat while daylight lasts. Failure on our people to give priority to his clarion call and divine warning will very soon be another major disaster to our people over four decades after the first. We must as a matter of extreme urgency desist from allowing the north from being our food basket as the pitiable and dangerous case is today, after all we have the lands in Abakaliki, Adani, Anambra Basin, Ayamelum, Ogbaru, Imo Basin which we should now characterize as our food baskets. Please

contribute your opinion to this important discuss.

ONYE UGBO BURU NTI CHIRI YA.