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Nigeria now second largest producer of rice in the world, claims Presidency

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February 19, 2017
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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, says Nigeria has achieved the status of second largest producer of rice in the world. The United States, Thailand, China and India are major producers of rice. Shehu did not give details of how he arrived at his assertion and the quantity of rice produced in the country as against what is produced in other climes.

Malam Garba said this in Abuja at the weekend at a special interactive session with the youths organised by Citizens Support for Good Governance in Nigeria (SGGN). He urged Nigerians to exercise more patience.

He said: “No country will develop when you have to import virtually everything, including tooth pick and tissue paper. All the food we eat in this country was being imported. So, all of the money earned was just going to buy food.

“But as I speak to you now, Nigeria just achieved the record of the second largest producer of rice in the world. The rice revolution just started a year ago. Some of you from Nasarawa know the kind of things going on there. A newspaper did an investigation in Kebbi and they found out that there were 48,000 new millionaires in Kebbi State alone last year for growing rice.

“This over reliance on oil has killed this country and we cannot continue like this. So, the diversification of the economy means more money will be in the hands of ordinary Nigerians. And there will be widespread prosperity all over the country.”

“The economy is getting better, oil price is going up and the policies of government in the Niger Delta are beginning to calm things down.”

Malam Garba added that “exploration and exportation of oil is growing, gas is coming back and power is getting better.”

“So, all we require of you is to be patient, President Muhammadu Buhari is a long distance runner. He is not looking for short-term gain that people will just clap at him and those advantages just disappear. He wants to build a future of prosperity, a future that will be everlasting -something that will stay for generation upon generation.

“And I assure that this is a beginning of the good things to come. We assure you that you support for President Buhari is not misplaced. It is well situated. We encourage you to continue to invest your future in the hands of the government PMB. Change will come to you.”

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