President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday inaugurated the National Food Security Council, declaring that the country had gone through turbulence in the past three years of his administration.
The inauguration of the council was held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
His words: “Nigeria’s journey in the last three years has been a very turbulent one.”
The president said, however, that the newly inaugurated council would continuously assess and enhance the various social investment and agricultural programmes put in place by his administration to achieve their full potential.
“We shall also develop new programmes and projects that will protect and indeed, create more jobs in farming, fisheries, animal husbandry and forestry.
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“We will also not lose sight of the other issues that will impact our food production ambitions such as population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation, rural infrastructure development and climate change,” he said.
The president spoke about the different programmes his government had put in place to ensure that the living standard in the country improves.
The programmes, he said, included the national social investment programmes, agriculture and the long-term pollution remediation projects in the Niger Delta.
He also stated that the government had intensified its participation in the Lake Chad Basin Commission with the goal of reversing the shrinkage of the lake, which impacts the livelihoods of over 45 million farmers, herdsmen and fishermen in LCBC countries.
He stated that his government also issued the first ever green bond that would act as a catalyst for investments in renewable energy and afforestation projects.
The president added that the establishment of the agro rangers unit within the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to protect the billions of naira of investments recorded in Nigeria’s agricultural sector across the country, was a part of its efforts.
