Omnipratika::Cedac Initiative of 1998

AGRICULTURAL COOP SOLUTION FOR NIGERIA

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• Background to Omnipratika Initiative of 1998: The methods of production, storage and inefficient distribution have been the bane of food security in Nigeria. Most farmers still live at the subsistence level and 95% of them at this level, own less than 20 hectares size farms. Amidst plenty, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, one time Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa posited that about 60% of Nigerians lived below poverty level in 1995. by 1998, the World Bank confirmed a further deterioration of 8%. This by UNDP definition means less than US$ 1.00 per day at parity calculation. i.e. When matched against what one US$1.00 can buy in the USA or internationally. However, when matched against its equivalent in Naira, we have about 100 Naira. This means that about 68% of Nigerians each lived on less than N100 a day!

In November 2001, The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) reported that the world's wealth stood at $24 trillion and that almost half of the world's population i.e. 3 billion live on less than $2.00 a day with about 1.2 billion people who are mostly female living in "absolute poverty." We therefore decided that something had to be done and had been contributing our little solutions since 1996.

•What we set out to do. The Center for the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives (CEDAC) is a private initiative, non-profit but major arm of Omnipratika Nigeria Limited - 5 X International Award Recipient; established to address rural - urban migration, (particularly for many young persons who have turned 'refugees' without knowing this, while searching for illusory city wealth) poverty and food security. CEDAC is also a center of academic excellence for agricultural cooperative.

•The Objectives: The objectives of the center are:

a. To encourage the reversal of rural - urban migration.

b. Stimulation of capacity at the grass roots level and nation-wide through training courses, seminars and cooperation with relevant institutions locally and internationally.

c. Environmental Protection.

d. Coordination of cooperative movements nation-wide into a formidable instrument for national growth and development.

e. Cooperation with similar cooperative movements overseas through exchange programs.

f. To harness and coordinate national food production efforts through agricultural cooperatives.

g. Elimination of rural/urban poverty through productive assets, modern technology and services directed at food production.

h. To evolve a strategy for the re-investment of oil, gas and solid mineral revenue in agricultural cooperatives.

•The Program: The Omnipratika-CEDAC program is therefore designed to compartmentalize the Nigerian population estimated at 100 million in 1998 into functional units. A model and replicable program where organizations, employees, institutions, industries, companies, households, supermarkets, trade groups were identified and would operate in a network as organized agric coop movements. This is informed by the fact that almost all economic ventures, trade/commerce and social services could be converted into direct benefits under agricultural cooperatives. Joining the network will enable you know how.

•With about 6000 hosts on the Internet and about 200 million people having Internet access worldwide in the year 2000, the Omnipratika-CEDAC machine was expected to impact our lives positively.

•2010 Updates: In 1995, 60% of Nigeria lived below poverty level! In 1998 the situation deteriorated by 8%! Now about 70% of Nigerians have been reported as worse off! Just 5 years to UN Millennium Development Goals (UN MDG) deadline for the eradication of global poverty, only Ghana has been reported to be near half way to the attainment of the UN goals!

$170 billion (N25 trillion) has been projected as the financial outlay for the realization of the UN MDG for Nigeria in the next 5 years!

Questions to Stimulate Innovations: Did the food deficit and low income countries get the problem definition wrong? Was the political will for the right solutions lacking? Is corruption the only setback? How about planning? Wouldn't a needs-based assessment be a useful guide to rural projects? Would implementation guidelines or checklist be necessary hereafter? Has a local based inspection and coordination unit failed? Hasn't a satellite based monitoring become inevitable? How about the feedback mechanisms? Did poverty inertia creep into the works? Were there bureaucratic bottlenecks? Was enlightened self interest part of the problem? Did those involved in implementation lack patriotism? Was poor leadership at all levels of government an issue? How does bad followership contribute to the problem? Is International debt cycle still a problem? Was there donor fatigue? Are the universities and polytechnics rubbing off on the society properly? How does the University of California relate with Silicon Valley to change the world? How did human capital development impact on Japan and South Korea? What went wrong with the UN MDGs in Nigeria? What will happen by 2015 and beyond? What are the manifest consequences of poverty steering everyone in the face? Will Okada riders increase? Will there be more work for the orthopedic hospitals? Will there be more food in the market? See a recent MDG report.

Who now should manage $170b projected for poverty eradication in Nigeria 2010-2015?

Please send your comments and suggestions to ajibulusompam@yahoo.com. We have a big passion for development and longevity.

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