Worried by the level of hunger in the country, the upper legislative chamber, Senate has urged the Federal Government to introduce food stamps programme as an interim measure to cushion the effects of food insecurity in the country.
It maintained that the introduction of the programe has become necessary “with a view to working out practicable templates and implementable modalities for the actualisation of the programme”.
These resolutions followed a motion sponsored by the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) and co-sponsored by Senator Saliu Mustapha (APC, Kwara Central) as well as majority of others during plenary.
Food stamps are a supplemental nutrition assistance programme that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people to help them maintain adequate nutrition and health.
According to him, “the reason for the above projection is not far-fetched, as several indicators, which include but not limited to the ongoing conflicts across the country, climate change impacts, escalating inflation as witnessed in recent time, and rising costs of both food and essential non-food commodities, due to fall in value of Naira in exchange market”.
He noted that many hungry and angry Nigerians have been expressing their frustration and anger over the recent increase in food prices by demonstrating on the streets in several cities across the country.
Contributing, the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Abba Moro (PDP, Benue South) said there is no better time for the motion than now, adding that identifying vulnerable people in his constituency has always been a problem but that the food stamps will help.
Introduce Food Stamps To Tackle Hunger, Senators Tell Tinubu
