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Cassava leaves can yield $7b kerosine yearly, says minister From Emeka Anuforo, Abuja
THIS is no fiction: Cassava can actually yield up to $7 billion worth of the domestic energy commodity kerosine, yearly. And this is from the leaves alone.
This revelation came yesterday from the Minister of Commerce, Ambassador Idris Waziri. He spoke in Abuja at an award ceremony in his honour. According to the minister, the discovery, which has been passed to the Federal Executive Council (FEC), was made recently during his visit to Pakistan. If fully exploited, he said, kerosine, already christened "millennium jelly," would be cheaper and more environment friendly than the conventional brand.
And, perhaps, as a way of silencing doubting masses, the minister challenged: "Take some quantity of cassava leaves, squeeze out the jelly. Put it in a tin and light a match to it. It emits fire just like the kerosine we use." "Apart from ethanol, starch and glucose, we have over 1000 derivatives from cassava," the minister added.
Waziri noted that the discovery had been forwarded to the FEC for scrutiny. He asserted that petroleum had given the nation a bad name, noting that for as long as the nation continued to concentrate on petroleum, wealth would continue to elude the poor man.
According to him, "we need to use petrol to develop other sectors for sustainability. Petroleum will dry up but the land will never stop bringing out agro products." He maintained that cassava could actually earn the country $20 billion annually, the leaves alone, bringing in $7 billion of that figure.
While challenging the nation to make the best use of its natural resources, Waziri said, "add value to your agro produce and you will see the enormous wealth that can be created. We have to make Nigeria attractive by creating wealth at all levels through our individual entrepeneurship." ------------------------------------------------
Tell me something that I don’t already know.
My question is 1. Why do we need FEC scrutiny? 2. Why is the government butting in? 3. Should the government not butt out and let the free economy reign? 4. Should the people not be allowed to pursue this venture without government interference?
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Elsewhere in the world, discerning investors will endow research studies and catch in on the revelation. But in a place where an uneducated local government councillor or a government apologist makes more money that a college professor. With this RENT SEEKERS (apologies to professor PAt Utomi) all around, where is the motivation to invest before reaping?
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Folks, How come cassave leaf will now change the life of the suffering masses of that dommed country nigeria. For many years nigeria has exported trillon barrels of grude oil and yet the people are still groaning. These jokers who are running affairs in nigeria must be told to their face that days when they fooled the citizens are over. Some day these thieves in government will pay severely for the crime they have committed against the people. What make this reckless Obasanjo's government think life will change for an average citizen,from cassava leaf kerosine, when they can't account for the millons of dollars that acrued to nigeria from oil sales.nigeria has become a laughing stock in the civilized world.
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quote: According to the minister, the discovery, which has been passed to the Federal Executive Council (FEC), was made recently during his visit to Pakistan.
The the minister must be a bloody idiot and a stark illeterate if he had to go to Pakistan to discover what every child in JSS 3 knows in Biafra that anerobic fermentation of plants and subsequent fractional distillation produces ethanol and other alcohols. Same thing that happens in palmwine and it is exactlly the same method used to produce our local schnapps (kai-Kai) in Biafra. The dumb minister should go back and read the history of Biafra (or have it read to him) where he will find that during the Biafran war, Biafrans had mobile refineries which used to produce Fuels for the Biafran Army from this same source with this same method. Mugu Minister. Discovery my nyash.
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In the nigerian world.......respect for Biafra...and Biafran technology is culturally discouraged, in favor of ignorance, arrogance and yoroba/hausa voodoo science.... Why is nigeria stuck in the stone age?
Ochiwar:
The above edited quote from a different subject is official policy in nigerian government. They know they need Biafran technology to help their economy but they will turn it down in favor of islamic theology and sharia science.
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yes they have come again with their confusion. Here you have again a typical example of the type of people that lead us in Nigeria, their educational level, and their IQ. The minister claims to have discovered that fuel can be extracted from cassava and other plant species, a process that has been known since antiquity. When infact these plant sources where, appart from coal, the main source of these CHO based compounds b4 the relatively recent discovery and commercial utilisation of fossil based sources i.e crude oil. At this time the sourcing from coal and vegetative sources was forced to the background due to economic considerations and price effectivenes. The fact is that producing the fuel from crude oil is much cheaper and faster that fuel from cassava will not easyly compete. What must also be taken into consideration is the effect on price of cassava it being a staple food of Nigerians .As the demand increase for fuel production so the price will increase.
So this cassava option is mainly for those who have no crude oil in their territory. To us Biafrans who have crude on our land this statemnt of the minister would at best be seen as a diversionary statement. It is the awusa who dont have crude on their land and they have enough land with sparse population, let them go and be producing fuel from cassava in their land and let them leave us alone to be managing our own crude oil first.
Let the minister go to his village and plant cassava and name it Ambassador Idris Waziri fuel discovery .
That was how white man came to africa a few years ago and said he discovered river Niger. Where my Ancestors have been living for thosands of years. that is how Columbus claimed he discovered America, upon finding great civillisations there.
Please this is very annoying of the minister.Let them go and plant cassava in the north and leave us alone with their childish ideas.
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Ochiwar, you said it all.This minister needs to invest his own looted funds in developing a "cassava fuel discovery farm".The same people that have treated all Biafran indigenous technology with contempt and disdain now want to suddenly "discover" fuel in plant leaves!
They are just seeking other funny ways to siphon public funds into bogus projects.
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Ochiwar, Olusolaa, Chima Njoku, Amadi O and Njiko Umuigbo
Thanks my brothers for seeing through this nonsense by the so called minister. It is another means on control that these fools want to place on the people of Biafra. Before you know it cassava will become a national resource to be control by the government giving these morons in power another avenue to dictate what goes on in Biafran Land.
They took control of Coal, then oil and now they want a reason to meddle in Biafran affairs. Cassava seems to be an easy way to meddle. They should simply but out and let Biafran Nation use the natural resources at her disposal as she sees fit.
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There is a probale possibility that cassava may yield fuel resources but in Nigeria and in the hands of those who are technologically inferior to the Igbos, forget it.
Hail Biafra
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