The federal government has said it will ensure that, henceforth, Nigeria will consume her products as well as produce what it consumes with the view to ending importation of consumable items and remove the country from the list of dumping nations.
To actualise this, the federal government has commenced engagement and support for local governments across the country on good governance and development as cardinal to the attainment of Nigeria’s development agenda to achieve the food security agenda of the present administration.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, stated this at the ongoing two-day sensitisation workshop on the role of the local governments at enhancing the capacity of the grassroots to maximise the benefits of the federal government’s food security emergency programme in Abuja.
The SGF maintained that the federal government is not unaware of the challenges faced by local governments across the nation with regards to agricultural resources, adding that, “I make bold to say that the Office of the SGF under my leadership is poised and disposed to providing the needed leadership necessary for sustainable initiatives that will cascade down to the grassroots in the overall interest of the country.”
He continued, “The food security sensitisation programme is designed to create a forum for local government stakeholders to interface with the drafters and implementers of the food security emergency programme put in place by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Nigeria has no reason to import from any other nations of the world to meet its food needs. We have enough fertile land and able bodied men and materials to cultivate the land and grow our crops to meet our food requirements. As the giant of Africa, we need to get up from our slumber to grow what we eat and eat what we grow”.
