FOOD Insecurity

Dear Mom

I speak of foods & drinks - especially water! - as the most frightening lack in the land today. You see women basically manufacturing meals out of nothing for their families - especially our hapless kids! And you wonder, you just wonder.

It takes weeks to grow most basic staples and their condiments. And we can do this all-year-round in this country. It takes days to do wells and boreholes in any part of this country. And we have the knowhow, can procure or produce the tools/equipment, and have millions of idle hands waiting to be deployed. No, our leaders won't! And you wonder, you just wonder.

FOOD Insecurity debases all of us. As endowed as we are here, we should be worrying more about less fortunate countries, drought-ravaged lands, poverty-stricken communities, where Nigerian food aid should flood. Alas, we are the shameless and wasteful ones asking for foreign assistance in agric! I shudder at what
our so-called partners think of us, say behind us. Do our leaders care? You wonder, you just wonder.

Well, citizens must ACT in self-defence, self-actualization. Let the private sector and civil society step in! We know now that when they do, things change virtually overnight.

I speak of it today because I'm optimistic that 2011 elections will give us the leverage, willy-nilly. And like you, when you were here, I worry about the fate and state of women and children worldwide. It will be well, by God's grace. Amen.

Love
Dayo