Ambode’s Lake Rice: Matters arising

While the euphoria that greeted the sale and distribution of the Lagos/Kebbi Rice initiative begins to wind down, one will not forget in a hurry, the news of the Memorandum of Understanding which was recently consummated between the two aforementioned states on the production and marketing of this fast-growing Nigeria’s most staple food – rice.

Needless dabbling into the nitty gritty of the agreement. It is pertinent to point out here that the consuming public was kept longer than necessary while the speculation lasted, concerning the delivery date, modalities and pricing and name. Not much was done to bring things to the public knowledge until a few days preceding the Christmas and New Year period when the true picture began to crystallize.

At the end, decision was taken by the state government to the effect of distributing the commodity across designated centres, mainly at local government areas.

source: punch newspaper