MORINGA BENEFITS - PART 2

The Raw Material Research and Development Agency (RMRDC), an Agency under the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, recently organized a workshop and Exhibition to sensitize the public on socio-economic uses of Moringa. Dr. Nwora A. Ozumba, is a Moringa researcher from the Moringa Research Department of Parasitology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa, and a resources person at the workshop, said every part of Moringa Oliefera, be it the leaves, roots, flowers, oil, have a range of medicinal and nutritional remedies. “In fact, at the last count I ended up with eighty one (81) remedies minimum and they can cure virtually anything, we the orthodox scientists have been attacking the herbal medicine men on how can a single drug cure 20 diseases, but now we realized that if you pick a leaf Moringa it has the potential to cure so many diseases, all scientifically proven, the leaves alone can cure diabetes, malaria, malnutrition etc. We can now see the scientific basis for what the traditional medicine people are saying. Moringa in one sentence can cure anything. It is a Dr. Cure All”. Dr Ozumba who has been working on Moringa for about 11 years, told Daily Trust that he has never taken protein or mineral supplement prepared by the pharmaceutical companies since he discovered Moringa. According to him they are too inferior compared to Moringa. “Take a look at me to see whether I have a malnutrition problem, when you look at the scientific analysis of what Moringa tree contains, you will see the basis of all what I am saying” “As a researcher as well as an academician, our duty is to develop this thing for the industry, to develop them and add value to it, as you can see RMRDC is collaborating with Avuco to develop the potentials of the plant. Dr Ozumba said Moringa is sustainable. It never finishes, it does not destroy the environment, but instead it adds to it. Crude oil can damage our environment, but Moringa doesn’t encourage hostage taking, like what is happening in the Niger Delta today. So if the cost benefit analysis is done in these two sectors, Moringa usage will go beyond the crude oil. “A lot of things can be developed and commercialized from the tree ,and I can tell you that if we do a real cost benefits analysis, between crude oil and Moringa, it will definitely be in favour of Moringa”. According to him, Moringa business is not a local issue, “there was an international workshop held in Ghana two years ago, the whole World was there ,and only Nigeria was absent, I was the only Nigerian scientist that attended the workshop, and I was even ashamed of myself because I was the only man from Nigeria. “The most irritating thing in Nigeria is that, Moringa can grow anywhere from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri because it suits every climatic condition in Nigeria, and we have the landmass, so if Nigeria is really serious about Moringa, I assure you it will do away with all these problems associated with crude oil and will achieve much in the fight against poverty”, said Dr Ozumba.

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