By Christiana Ekpa
Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, has expressed the commitment of the Federal Government to ensuring nutrition and food security for the citizens.
He said this during the inaugural meeting of the House of Representatives Committee on Nutrition and Food Security with relevant stakeholders at the National Assembly Complex on Thursday.
Bagudu said the twin challenges of nutrition and food security have drawn the attention of many stakeholders.
He said both nutrition and food security have hirtherto been associated with one sector or the other rather than appreciating the cross cutting nature of those challenges.
“Nigeria has done very well and supported by different stakeholders particularly the government of President Bola Tinubu, have appreciated the nutrition and food security challenges.
“We have National Food Security Council Chaired by no less a person than the Vice President, Kashim Shettima. We are participants in the United Nations Food System Transformation as as well as the institutional alignment which through the Ministry of Agriculture being recognised as Ministry of Agriculture and that of Food Security.
“This is commendable. We recall that in the last administration under former President Muhammadu Buhari, a national security council was created chaired by the President himself and I was privileged to be the Vice Chair of that council.” “We have National Food Security Council Chaired by no less a person than the Vice President, Kashim Shettima. We are participants in the United Nations Food System Transformation as as well as the institutional alignment which through the Ministry of Agriculture being recognised as Ministry of Agriculture and that of Food Security.
“This is commendable. We recall that in the last administration under former President Muhammadu Buhari, a national security council was created chaired by the President himself and I was privileged to be the Vice Chair of that council.”
