Reno Omokri, A former presidential aide, has urged Nigerians to adopt a self-reliant approach in response to the country’s economic hardship.
Omokri, via his X handle , highlighted the rising cost of living, exemplified by the price of a bag of rice now costing #70,000.
He challenged Nigerians to see this as an opportunity to venture into rice farming or to buy rice cheaply from other regions and sell it at a profit in major cities.
“You complain that a bag of rice is now ₦70,000, yet when rain falls all of us shout ‘weather for two’ and go to create more babies that we can’t feed.
“Why not see ₦70,000 as an opportunity to go into rice farming? If you cannot go into rice farming, then see it as an opportunity to enter a train from Lagos to Kano, or from Abuja to Kaduna to buy rice cheap and sell it at a profit in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Enugu, and Ibadan?
“Nobody is coming to save us. The UK and Japan are in recession. The twenty country Eurozone is in near recession. If we do not grow our own food and consume made-in-Nigeria goods and services over imported products, we will soon see ₦150,000 bag of rice. Let us #GrowNairaBuyNaija,” Omokri wrote.
