Declare State of Emergency on Food and Cost of Living Crisis Now –Non State Actors Urge Pres. Tinubu

 

Non-State Actors from across many states of the federation have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to declare a STATE OF EMERGENCY on food and cost of living crisis in the country.

 

The call was made in a random online  interview conducted by Flowerbudnews across the country on urgent, immediate and long term solutions to the current severe food predicament facing the generality of the masses across the country.

 

 

Nigerians from different walks of life were asked to offer ”sincere, non-hatred based ADVICE AND COUNSEL to the Federal Government on the way out of the current – FOOD PROBLEM which is suffocating the masses.”

Majority of the respondents, professionals, artisans, farmers, teachers were unanimous in begging president Tinubu to take immediate drastic measures to solve the problem of food by outrightly declaring a state of emergency on food crisis.

An Osun-state based farmer, Haj. AbduLLAH Akinlabi begged President Tinubu to realize that ”a lot of Nigerians like him and, like me, WALLAHI, I want him to succeed, but, like our people say, once food problem is out of poverty, the poverty over”.

Another citizen, Samuel Akinola in Akure urged the President to ”undertake massive importation of grains – maize, Guinea corn, wheat, beans, soya beans  etc, and rice, to quickly restore very cheap prices for the food items’.

Other Nigerians who responded to the   Flowerbudnews online interview suggested that President Tinubu ”undertake the massive importation of the food items for a year.

They also advised the President to provide heavy grants to recognized local farmers and peasants for the next one year to get the nation out of the current food predicament.

 

A respondent from Kano advised the Government to ‘:Undertake massive importation of farming inputs. Provide heavy grants to all local industries producing farm inputs, including fertilisers and chemicals, all just for one year”..

”With a massive importation along with grants for local production, agricultural inputs, especially fertilisers, chemicals etc should become very cheap and available to get us out of the food crisis,” he stated.

Though, there were respondents with knocks for the President, especially for perceived delay in taking drastic measures to provide food for the citizenry, in view of the seriousness of people’s plight.

Majority of respondents in the Flowerbudnews interview, were, however, sympathetic.

Some urged the President to ”remain close to the people, develop an honest and reliable feedback mechanism to help him know the true state of affairs of the citizenry at all times”.

They counselled that, ”though, political opposition could be desperate, the President should respond promptly and with utmost seriousness to any situation that is making life painful for the citizenry”.

”People have only one life to live and deserves some succour in it at every stage,” one respondent wrote to Flowerbudnews ‘.

He added that ”the President should always remember that no matter the number of Minister he had, people would always, and only remember this administration as – Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Government”. (Flowerbudnews)

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