FG Should Prioritise Agriculture – Nollywood Actor

Veteran Nollywood actor Victor Osuagwu has urged the federal government of Nigeria to reduce the rate of unemployment by investing in Agriculture because farmers never lack.

Osuagwu said this on Wednesday, at an event organized by the African Farmers and Cultural Organization, in Isolo, Lagos.

The Nollywood actor said he intends going into agriculture when he eventually stops acting.

According to him, “Government should be more concerned on how to structure and expand the agricultural sector by granting loans to local farmers, and not to neglect the Agricultural sector the way they do to entertainment industry which has more than 10 million employees. They shouldn’t allow farmers to die in suffering.

“If you go to Europe, a lot of people are farming and that is why they don’t lack food. They have varieties of farm foods to eat but the case here in Nigeria is different. Everybody wants to work in a bank or Oil Company and the other areas are being neglected. So, I give kudos to AFCO empowerment initiative in partnership with federal government to improve agricultural production.

“I am preparing myself for retirement because there will be a time we will all go to our various areas to go and relax, eat fresh foods and move away from the hustling and bustling of the urban city. I’m presently the President General of my Community. And I’m also a farmer.

“I’m planning to expand so as to start exporting outside Nigeria that is the reason I’m here today and I learned a lot from this programme. What I do now is that I give it out to people. I don’t buy bags of rice for people.”