Tinubu Declares State Of Emergency On Food Security

In order to ensure food security in Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu has issued a state of emergency.

Dele Alake, the president’s spokesperson, revealed this Thursday when briefing a State House reporter.

The National Security Council should have jurisdiction over all issues relating to the availability and price of food and water, which are necessities for survival.

According to reports, the decision was in accordance with the Tinubu administration’s stance on supporting the most disadvantaged.

According to Alake, the President is aware of the rising cost of food and how it affects people’s wallets.

In order to lessen the effects of the elimination of subsidies, the president also ordered the prompt transfer of food and fertilisers to farmers and households.

The President was cited as saying, “There needs to be an immediate synergy between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Water Resources to provide appropriate irrigation of farmlands and to guarantee food is produced all year round.”

In addition to maintaining a strategic food reserve that will be utilised as a price stability mechanism for essential grains and other food commodities, we shall establish and support a National Commodity Board that will monitor and regularly assess food prices. The government will control price fluctuations in food through this board.

The National Commodity Exchange (NCX), Seed Companies, National Seed Council and Research institutes, NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, Food Processing/Agric Processing associations, private sector holders & Prime Anchors, small holder farmers, crop associations, and Fertiliser producers, blenders and suppliers associations, to name a few, are on board to support the intervention effort of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“We will use our security architecture to defend the farms and the farmers so that they can go back to their farms without worrying about threats,” said the spokesperson.

The Nigerian Central Bank, according to the President, will continue to support the agricultural value chain.

He claimed that in order to enhance the amount of land that is arable for farming, 500,000 hectares have already been mapped.

According to Tinubu, export revenues from food and agriculture would rise.