If You Go Around My Compound, You Will See My Greenhouse. I Cultivated A Lot Of Rice’ – David Umahi

In an interview, Minister of Works Sen. David Umahi, discussed the upcoming nationwide protest over the country’s worsening hardship, as reported by THE SUN.

Umahi argued that President Tinubu’s leadership prevented the country from failing. He criticized those who talk about hunger without offering solutions, stating that merely discussing the issue is unproductive. He pointed out that despite the government’s effort to raise the minimum wage to N70,000, individuals need to increase their productivity and take personal responsibility for their well-being.

Sen. David Umahi highlighted the productivity and self-sufficiency of the Chinese as an example, stressing the importance of self-reliance in agriculture.

He mentioned that people can grow yams in buckets, tomatoes, and peppers, even in their own compounds, noting his personal experience with his greenhouse and rice cultivation.

He suggested that instead of buying these products, people should plant them at home. Umahi argued that regardless of the federal government’s financial injections and palliatives, there needs to be a shift in working hours and productivity levels. Without utilizing available resources effectively, he said, there would be no significant results.

In his words: “Today, we can grow yam in buckets in barns, we can grow tomatoes, we can grow pepper. If you go round my compound, you will see my green house. Sometime, I feel like coming back home because of the green house.

I cultivated a lot of rice, now, I want to start growing yams in bags. Everybody has something to do, we should not as a people be buying pepper, we shouldn’t be buying tomatoes, we should be able to get bags and fill it with manure and plant all these things in front of our houses.

“No matter the amount of money the federal government injects into the system and palliatives, we must change our working hours, we must change our level of productivity because if you have all the working tools and you don’t deploy it, there will be no results.”

Umahi criticized the planned protest as mischievous, urging critics to offer constructive criticism and solutions rather than inciting unrest. He emphasized that while constructive criticism is essential for democracy, malicious and inciting criticisms are unproductive and lead nowhere…..Viêw_ More