The president said his administration is working hard to address food inflation occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic
Buhari, however, reassured Nigerians that his administration had taken measures to address the nation’s security challenges
President Muhammadu Muhammadu Buhari has revealed why there are ballooning prices of foodstuff in the country in spite of the investments of his administration in agriculture.
Buhari spoke in his Eid-el-Kabir message to Nigerians as contained in a statement released by his senior special assistant on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement on Monday, July 19, in Abuja.Buhari says his administration will address food scarcity in Nigeria.
It was gathered that the president also assured that his administration is working hard to address food inflation occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect of floods on agricultural activities in the country.
The president noted that floods had caused large-scale destruction to agricultural farmlands, thereby “impacting negatively on our efforts to boost local production in line with our policy to drastically reduce food importation.
“No government in our recent history has invested as heavily as we are doing to promote local production of about 20 other commodities, through the provision of loans and several other forms of support to our farmers.”
The president said his administration is working hard to address food inflation occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic
Buhari, however, reassured Nigerians that his administration had taken measures to address the nation’s security challenges
