Agricultural Mobile Phones

In as much as we know the importance of information to any endeavour, it is funny how the Federal Government of Nigeria under the leadership of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan intends to distribute phones rural farmers who ordinarily should be given quality farm inputs. Mobile phones can be acquired by even the poorest of Nigerians but access to information is the basic problem.

May I remind my president that not everybody (including the educated) is technologically savvy while most of the farmers can barely spell their names not to talk of being able to read text messages or browse the internet on the mobile phones.

The motive of this gesture is questionable owing to the problems mentioned above and if the Federal Government is being honest, it will award the contract for a customised phone to a phone manufacturing fir instead of a third party.

I rest my case for now till I hear other divergent views.