President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday March 26th, inaugurated the National Food Security Council. The inauguration took place inside the Council Chambers of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The council, chaired by the president himself, comprises as members the governors of Kebbi, Taraba, Plateau, Lagos, Ebonyi and Delta States. His council's objectives include developing sustainable solutions to the farmers–herdsmen clashes; climate change and desertification and their impact on farmland; grazing areas and lakes, rivers and other water bodies; oil spillage and its impact on Niger Delta fishing communities; piracy and banditry; agricultural research institutions and extension services and the problem of smuggling.
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ReplyDeleteNot another committee!!!!! All this elitist duplication of mandates everywhere...ah beg whats the special thing this council will do that no other agency or Ministry in this country can do? Money that the should spend equipping and strengthening institutions that already exist they will waste now on sitting allowances and other rubbish with no clear results the end of the day
ReplyDeleteBesides, 80% of those who produce food in this country are at subsistence level. I don't see them represented in this council.