The Senate has called on the federal government to as a matter of urgency address the problem of hunger in the land caused by food insecurity which has created what it described as an emergency.
According to the Senate, President Bola Tinubu led Federal government should take measures to fight the current food insecurity in the country by outlining some measures to combat the situation, just as it warned that with hunger and poverty in the land, patience, tolerance are both elastic, but they are not eternally elastic as people are already losing patience.
Resolutions of the Senate yesterday were sequel to a motion titled, “Urgent Need to Address Food Insecurity and Market Exploitation of Consumables In Nigeria.” It was sponsored by Senator Sunday Karimi, APC, Kogi West and Co-sponsored by the Senate Whip, Senator Ali Ndume, APC, Borno South. Karimi said that the Senate is “Further aware that although insecurity in food-producing regions, bad roads, increase in the cost of transportation attributable to the removal of fuel subsidy and depreciation of the value of Naira, are possible factors that have contributed to the increase in the price of Food items, Household Commodities, and Consumables; the percentage of increase in the cost of transportation and some under factors listed above is significantly less than the percentage...
In his contribution, Ndume who lamented that this was the first time Nigeria was listed as one of the countries battling food insecurity, said, “In their many publications, they say Nigeria is likely to experience the highest session of food insecurity globally.
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