Food Items: FG to import garri, maize, others to crash prices – Minister

Food Items: FG to import garri, maize, others to crash prices – Minister

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, says recent interventions by the Federal Government will crash the prices of food items in the market.

Prices of food items have skyrocketed in recent times, making life difficult for many Nigerians who are now taking to the streets in some parts of the country to protest over the situation.

But to address the problem, President Bola Tinubu on Thursday directed the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to release about 42,000 metric tonnes of maize, millet, and other commodities in strategic reserves to address the rising cost of food in the country.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Thursday, the minister said this move will crash the prices of food items and make food more available for Nigerians.

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He said, “The Federal Government has looked once again at the issue of the difficulty of putting food on the table of most Nigerians and has come up with a number of measures to ensure that food becomes more readily available to Nigerians.

“The first one is that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security release about 42,000 metric tonnes of maize, millet, garri, and other commodities so that these items will be made available to Nigerians immediately. The second one is that we have held a meeting with the Rice Millers Association of Nigeria and asked them to open up their stores.