Hardship: Ebonyi APC boss, Emegha task Nigerians to go into farming

Uchenna Okeh, Abakaliki

The chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ebonyi state, Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha has urged Nigerians to go into farming as a way to combat the increasing economic hardship and sufferings in the country.

Emegha made this known while speaking with newsmen, shortly after donating a new sienna bus to trinity motherless/orphanage home located at ugwuachara Mile 50, Abakaliki capital of Ebonyi State.

The APC chairman, Emegha, equally distributed bags of rice, tubers of yam and other numerous palliatives to Old people’s home and motherless/ orphanage homes at Onu Ebonyi, Nsugbe street, Alo street, and Ugwu Achara to mark his 53rd birthday celebration in the state.

“I urge everybody to go into farming, let us feed first. Farming is something we can do by ourselves not government. I and my family members are ready to go into farming. If you have food, I don’t think you will count yourself among people who are lacking things.

“Since government can provide some certain incentives for agricultural programes, then why don’t we go into farming? If you are hungry, what do President Bola Ahmed Tinubu gets to do about it, he (President) can’t do it alone, all of us has to join hands and go to the farm or did the President told you not to go to the farm, even the one at your back yard? The answer is no.

“Let us go and farm, think about what you are going to produce by yourself. You can produce enough quantity of garri, rice and other products and dash others. Why must you wait for the President to give money before you go to your farm, even the one at your back yard to farm.

“Did President Bola Ahmed Tinubu seize everybody’s land? The answer is no. You need to know that you can solve the problem by yourself, if there is food sufficiency, you see that everybody will stop going to Abuja.

“If you go to Aba now, if you say that you are an honorable member in Abuja, and that you won’t go to the farm, people will look at you as a useless person. If you are a Commissioner, Special Assistant to the governor, go to the farm and come out with a enough food that will takecare of your family” he stressed.

Responding, the chairman of Edda local government area, Mr. Ekuma Nkama Chima commended the APC chairman, Emegha for showing love and care for the less privileged, and however called on politicans in the state to learn to give, especially to people who are in the orphanage.