A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon.Olatunbosun Oyintiloye on Sunday called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently address the issue of hunger and starvation ravaging the country to save the masses from dying untimely.
Oyintiloye also charges the president to consider the reopening of the Benin Republic border for the importation of food to solve the problem of food crisis in the country.
He said, “hunger is a threat to national peace, and that is why the president must act very fast. The president should also provide citizens with decent living.”
Oyintiloye, while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, said that Nigerians were hungry and living below the poverty line.
The party stalwart further charged the president not to ignore the United Nations’ prediction that 82 million Nigerians, which is about 64 per cent of the country’s population, may go hungry by 2030.
“I will want to urge the president to, as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency on hunger, starvation, and poverty in the country.
“There is a need for the government to put in place the price control mechanism to checkmate the sharp practices by the traders in the market.”
He said many of the traders were taking undue advantage of the economy to exploit buyers , adding that there is an urgent need to check their excesses.
The APC chieftain who said that due to the prevailing harsh economy in the country, many households were finding it difficult to have three square meals, added that,
According to him “many of the traders were taking undue advantage of the economy to exploit buyers and, there is an urgent need to check their excesses.”
He also said that issue of inadequate farm inputs and that of insecurity must also be addressed for farmers to cultivate in their various farmland, while good incentives should be made available to agriculture to attract the younger ones.
Oyintiloye also appealed to Nigerians to continue to support the president, adding that things with all the various ongoing economic intervention programmes, the country would rise again.
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