The President Eden Moringa Productions and Markets and Eden Group Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited, Dr. Ashimashiga Michael Akoloaga, has revealed that the company will be creating 16 million jobs across the 774 local government Areas through investment in Moringa farming and production.
Akoloaga, who stated this during a press briefing Friday in Abuja, assured that investment in Moringa production can solve the problem of youth unemployment and poverty in the country.
He said with the over 20-year experience in Moringa research and development, the group is willing and ready to empower youth that are ready to cultivate and go into Moringa farming, as Moringa extract is being used as raw materials for drugs and organic fertilizer.
According to him, ‘Nigeria has been bedeviled by lots of problems of unemployment, poverty, health challenges and social crimes which investment in Moringa can help to solve but these problems will remain for a long time if we keep shying away from this sector.
“We wish to use this medium to call on the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, not to tread on the previous paths of past administrations where unemployment, poverty and health problems kept multiplying because they refuse to look at our successful Moringa research which serves among other as the best alternative that would transform the root course of Nigeria economy.
“Previous administrations understand the economic potential of the sector, yet refuse to take advantage of it to create jobs and improve the country’s economy despite our advocacy.
“Yet all the clamour of having sound policies to solve the challenges of unemployment, poverty without the Moringa Project failed.
“We wish to state categorically that Nigeria could sink further economically if the government continues to look away from this sector,” he said.
He re-emphasised the need for the government to take advantage of the sector, saying the cultivation of moringa, harvest, extract, produce and use as organic fertilizer will continue to make Nigeria wallow in poverty.
He also warned the Nigerian pharmaceutical industry to look toward using extract from moringa, saying foreign organisations are daily patronising the sector for their pharmaceutical needs to the detriment of Nigerian operators.
