When my friend called me this morning to say this, I didn’t know how to feel. While I pitied him, I felt some kind of excitement for the local tappers, who now have to grapple with increasing demands. Of course basic economics teaches that when demand is higher than supply, prices spiral upward, and for every producer the prayer is that demand continues to appreciate over and above supply.
What Soludo has done is to drive Anambra’s economic development via the autochtonous route. Everyone who came into Anambra this Yuletide wants to have a taste of the now popular “Nkwu-enu from Awgbu”. The local tappers are smiling to the bank as demand keeps soaring for them.
This is one hard earned paradigm shift that will set Anambra on the world trade map as a viable and competitive sub national in Nigeria and the sub-region.
Every family must have someone or persons who “make something”. Soon, when the 1million palm and coconut seedings distributed to households across the State begin to fruit, would you be shocked to see Anambra’s GDP per capita increase with the birth of “Anambra palm oil” and “Anambra Coconut”?
Maybe, just maybe, the pressure on our Foreign exchange may begin to drop when exports from the Light of the Nation begin to hit international ports.
Soludo no come play!
— Mazi Ejimofor Opara