NIGERIA : LAI MOHAMMED MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND CULTURE CLAIMS BOKO HARAM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SCARCITY OF TOMATOES

Lai  Mohammed, “People talk about the price of tomato but they forget one thing; they forget that the price of tomato today is a direct result of the fact that we have lost two years harvest to Boko Haram insurgency so he goes on to say  scarcity of tomatoes to insurgency, the Minister said, “Do you farm where there is war? We have lost two seasons of harvest in addition we have had very poor rainfall last year and this year. These are the combined responsible for the scarcity of tomato. Go and ask economists and agriculturists, they will tell you.”