“As a nation, if we cannot produce our own food but have to rely on imported food, then we have failed woefully.”
In a powerful statement, the head of the Black Restoration Foundation (BRF), Osabarima Kwaku Adu, warns that the true power over one’s life lies in who controls the food supply. The message is clear: understanding and securing food resources is essential for autonomy and survival.
According to him, “The colonialists have made it a point to systematically make Africans forget their natural food and eat imported junk food.”
Osabarima Adu who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the BRF based in Amsterdam, Holland, speaking on the radio in Ghana stressed that “as a nation, if we cannot produce our own food but have to rely on imported food, then we have failed woefully.”
“The fact is, whoever controls your food basket controls your entire existence. Let us take control of our food basket and, therefore, our destiny!” he pointed out.
He lamented that one of the ways through which the colonial imperialists continuously destroyed African agriculture was the excessive use of weedicides and pesticides consciously promoted by the colonialists.
The practice, he said has led to the destruction of soil nutrients and the degradation of most of African agricultural lands.
To him, it is unacceptable that after 68 years of independence, Ghana has turned into a country that relies on food imports to feed itself.
“Food import is the highest form of neo-colonialism put in place by the imperialists. Our true independence starts from our ability to produce our own food,” he said.
He traced the many hitherto unknown diseases affecting the people to the eating of foreign junk food.
To change the narrative, he suggested the use of prisoners in making the country self-sufficient in food production instead of them whiling away doing nothing in the prisons.
Osabarima Adu was of the opinion that military engineers could help in the crusade of self-sufficiency in food production by constructing roads into the hinterlands to facilitate the transportation of food produced to the market centres.
Story: Lawal Mohammed
