FG Strategizing To Arrest High Cost Of Food

The Federal Government says it is strategizing to arrest the high cost of food items in the country.

After the first meeting of the Presidential Committee on Emergency Food Intervention, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, said succour would soon be felt.

He explained that the meeting discussed the opening of the strategic food silos across the country, saying however that the modalities of releasing their contents to the public will be laid out in their subsequent meetings.

The minister said government had commenced discussions with major local millers and commodity traders to get information on what they have in stock, adding that such will provide insight into the appropriate level of intervention needed.

Alhaji Mohammed Idris emphasised that government’s intervention was extremely necessary to thwart the bad intention of those wanting to take advantage of the situation to make matters worst.

The Minister of Information said the government would make a definite pronouncement on the outcome of the ongoing deliberations on the current food crisis being experienced.

By Abdullah Bello, Edited By Grace Namiji