Birth Control, consumption of local food Panacea to Poverty, Economic Recession-Aregbesola

By Segun Adejumo

Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola charged Nigerians to embrace birth control practice and consume local food.

Aregbesola described birth control practice as a major way to reduce poverty and stem the tide of economic recession.

The Governor stated this on Thursday in Osogbo while hosting some youths who returned from Germany after two months of training in modern agricultural techniques at his office.

According to the Governor, it is obvious that Nigeria is in economic crisis especially as the nation’s economic mainstay, oil, was cheap in the international market.

He added that the production capacity had reduced significantly due to the activities of the Niger Delta Avengers.

The Governor said: “Besides, we also face food crisis and if we are unable to feed ourselves, then there is problem. We believe, as a government, that we must produce what we consume. The first panacea out of the food crisis is for us as a people to drastically curb our excessive taste for foreign foods.

“We should patronise our local foods rather than spend huge but scarce foreign exchange on importation of rice. Apart from this, now is also the time for our people to practise birth control and control our population.”

Speaking on agricultural programme of the youths in Germany, Aregbesola said the state government decided to send the youth for the agriculture programme to boost food production in the state.

Promising that government would assist the youth financially, Aregbesola aid the youth would impact positively on the mode of agricultural practice to boost food production.