Reason Food Prices Keeps Increasing – Pat Utomi

A Professor of political financial system, Pat Utomi has disclosed the explanation meals costs in Nigeria retains rising.

Talking throughout an interview with Channels Tv on Thursday, Utomi mentioned the explanation for the hike in costs of meals is as a result of the nation doesn’t produce most of what it makes use of.

He defined that Nigeria is a susceptible state as a result of it depends primarily on importation.

Addressing the political state of affairs within the nation, the previous presidential candidate on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) mentioned for the nation to get higher Nigerian’s should vote for individuals who have the most effective curiosity of the nation at coronary heart.

In keeping with him: “The true problem right here is that we aren’t producing. We’re not exporting, so we’re hit very badly by the truth that we’re so import-dependent and the costs of these imports are going loopy, and now we’re so depending on importation of meals.

“We must always have been going for a transparent nationwide safety factor with meals safety. We’re susceptible as a result of we’re importing every little thing – what we eat — in a rustic that ought to be exporting meals.

“We are able to repair this if we simply take ourselves critically for a bit of bit. Maintain individuals who assume politics is journey to go and earn money out of politics, and get individuals who need to serve and earn immortality for giving up themselves for the nice of the frequent particular person and customary good of all.”