An extended Lockdown may lead to a food security crisis in Nigeria

The lockdown of state borders means food supply chains are idle..

That means food prices are going to keep rising.

Because the supply obviously can't match demand.

Secondly, the planting season is here..
Human manpower is a necessity during planting.

With a national curfew on its way, it means less people in the farms

Less foods reaching markets, and we all know what happens when demand is constant but supply falls.

Food inflation.

This is what we get for blindly copying CNN
We are no longer in the crude oil era.

When we ignored studying our society because we could stat pad Economic productivity with Niger Delta oil..

The countries that lockdown have emergency welfare plans to deal with the shocks.

We blindly copied them & ignored reality
This is the slippery slope of Border Closure we all warned about.

A policy that obviously made Nigerians poorer was implemented because we needed an economic scapegoat ( Rice)

No lessons were obviously learnt from that and we applied same logic to lockdown.

I am tired..
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