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| Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode |
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, had said the Federal Government would support indigenous pencil companies to produce locally, to prevent the country from the importation of the product.
He said, “I felt a country like Nigeria should be able to produce pencil to meet its local need and even export so I directed the Project Development Agency to conduct research on pencil.
“I am happy that PRODA is working hard to deliver, we produce now pencil locally.
“I’m also happy that your company has decided to invest in pencil production.
“I will encourage you to continue to do research that will give you better ways to compete anywhere in the world.
“We will make the findings of research we do here available for you. See if you can see any information that will make you improve on your production,’’ he said.
But reacting on his official twitter handle on Wednesday, Kayode wonder why a country like Nigeria is struggling to produce pencil while other African countries like Ghana, Rwanda, Botswana are producing Artificial intelligence, cars, and computer parts.
Rwanda is producing cars, Ghana is producing artificial intelligence, Botswana is producing computer parts and South Africa is the industrial and manufacturing capital of Africa.— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) October 23, 2019
Sadly Nigeria is still struggling to produce pencils.
There is something wrong with us!
He tweeted, "Rwanda is producing cars, Ghana is producing artificial intelligence, Botswana is producing computer parts and South Africa is the industrial and manufacturing capital of Africa.
"Sadly Nigeria is still struggling to produce pencils.
"There is something wrong with us!