Nigerians call for government to put food on the table

Participants at a special Town Hall meeting organized by the Ministry of Information and Culture, in collaboration with the Alumni Association of National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, AANI, in Abuja, confronted the ministers present, demanding for quick remedy to the current economic hardship in the country.


The atmosphere was quite charged, according to reports.

President Buhari says we must produce our food locally,  some of the aggrieved participants told the ministers that Nigerians were tired of the talkshops and that government should do more to put food on their tables.

Speaking at the meeting, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said the Federal Government had adopted ranching as the only remedy to the lingering farmers and herdsmen crisis in the country. Ogbeh, who traced the problem to the Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, of Babangida’s administration of 1986, pointed out that “the situation in Nigeria at present did not start today.” He said: “This recession started long time ago in 1986, when the then federal government introduced structural adjustment programme. Then we threw our doors open for all kinds of importation.