I came back to Nigeria from Europe to farm – Mr. Chicken

Mr. Victor JP Mordi or ‘Mr. Chicken’ as he is fondly called now has a poultry farm with chicken of different varieties. He has a section for turkeys and English ducks are also reared and could be seen swimming freely in a pond. And that is not all as he is diversifying into fish farming […]

Mr. Victor JP Mordi or ‘Mr. Chicken’ as he is fondly called now has a poultry farm with chicken of different varieties. He has a section for turkeys and English ducks are also reared and could be seen swimming freely in a pond. And that is not all as he is diversifying into fish farming for which he is preparing ponds for a fish section. Mr. Chicken who also said his farm is growing by the day, added that he is also into feed production and drugs formulation and would soon hit the market big.
He said the main problem of some people in Nigeria is that they don’t know ‘gestation period’ is where one will invest and nurture the business before he starts reaping.
He said he has been trying to meet demands for his chickens within his environment and beyond.
Mr. Chicken said he will not work for someone else no matter the salary as he enjoys every moment tending his farm and developing it to the next level.
This attitude, he said, is why in the developed world farmers have farm house or country home where they will stay near their farms all year round and enjoy fresh air and the greenery.
Mr. Chicken went to University of Jos where he read Geography and Planning (Mining option) and graduated in 1989.
He went to Chicago, USA in 1998 and worked in a waste management firm with branches in Spain and Germany.
He said he has no regret for his sojourn in the diaspora as it opened his eyes to the deficiencies of Nigeria where people waited for government, and the government waited for 300 million barrels of oil, while there are other resources different from oil, adding that the best is agriculture.
On the way back home, he said he resolved not to join the league of those Nigerians who add to congestion in the already congested labour market. He said he thought of how he could be self-employed and even an employer of labour.
Mr. Victor said he visited modern farms in the US and Europe and learnt how to rear and hatch fish, chicken, turkey, English ducks and snails. He said oil and gas cover only one percent of your land mass and farming can be done in the 99 percent of Nigeria coupled with utilizing his father’s 100 hectares of land in Jos. He said he has a plantation of energy plant for the future.
An indigene of Niger Delta, Mordi said the so-called transformation agenda of the federal government is laughable as when an airport was remodeled, only 1 percent access it while a tarred road is accessed by only 5 percent of the populace and that selling electricity is wrong as only few percent can afford it.
Mr. Chicken has a large farm land and plans to fully utilise the land with the planting of maize in the rainy season.
He also revealed that he is planning to start another venture where the methane gas from his toilet would be harnessed for generating electricity which is a sought after necessity in Nigeria.