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.
The Senate has also warned against the looming crisis, saying that the country would not like the kind of thing that we will see in our streets, stressing that it was time that the country especially the Executive arm of government takes every possible action as the government cannot take the people for granted for too long, adding that have come almost to the end of the patience.
The Senate noted that over the past few months, prices of goods and household consumables have seen a significant rise in the country, leading to high inflation rates, weakened purchasing power, and a general deterioration in the living conditions of the vast majority of Nigerians.
The Senate has disclosed that as an emergency solution to address the problem of food scarcity, the Federal Government has deployed 60 trucks of fertilizers to each of the 36 states of the Federation with, two per Senator and one truck for each member of the House of Representatives.
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.
In his presentation, Senator Karimi noted that in the last few months, the price of goods and household.
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