Adjectives describing the export industry in Nigeria

On a ship departing Nigeria, eighty percent of the containers are empty! The principalities and powers are greater than any witch or wizard the world has ever seen, real or imagined! This is the reason, not that there isn’t produce to be exported! To them, nation above self!

The Nigerian Police, SON, NDLEA, NAFDAC, EFCC, DSS, NCS, NPA, NEPC, NIS, and other agencies in the league desire to be included in the agricultural export inspection process more than often, whereas an electronic scanner just does it once! These are the results, not just the monetary loss.

Using yam as an example, a 20-foot container can hold around 1,240 tubers of yam, each packaged in a carton with four medium-sized tubers that have been washed and individually wrapped in polypropylene bags.

Please estimate the amount of time that will pass before exporting from a Nigerian port.

At the Port, there is an astounding minimum waiting period of 75 days!

As everyone knows, even when properly packed, tubers and yams don’t do well in humid environments. Imagine it being in a humid or salted atmosphere prior to transportation. In Ghana, on the other hand, the procedures must be finished in just three days for the ship to depart. The needless delays at the port in Nigeria contribute to spoiling and unacceptability in the final destination nation.

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Because of the avarice, immorality, carelessness, and apathy of the lead agencies already mentioned, Nigerian yam exporters would have lost more than 68% of their cargo by the time they reached any part of the world, let alone Europe or America! Nigerians would first ship their yams to Ghana and then export them from there as a means of escape.

This suggests that 80% of the 4,000 empty containers that leave Nigeria are a reflection on all of us!

Feel sad for yourself and your loved ones for contributing to the issue if you’re among those who constantly criticise and curse the nation while your relatives and friends are employed by the aforementioned organisations!

Although we are the world’s largest producers of cassava, due to the aforementioned reasons, we are unable to even gain entry into the global market, with cassava from the Democratic Republic of the Congo being airlifted to Brussels. The relevant Nigerian agencies will irritate you with their customary anti-business sentiments and greed!