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President Muhammadu Buhari has cited prevalence of excessive flooding, insecurity and unscrupulous practices of food products’ middlemen as some of the reasons for current high cost of food commodities in the market.

Buhari offered the explanation on Monday in his Sallah message to Nigerians, especially Muslims, to mark this year’s Eid El-Kabir celebration.

The President also restated the determination of his istration to create a just, harmonious and prosperous country in which the safety of life and property is assured.

According to his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the President, observed his istration, more than any other before, had put huge investment into the agricultural sector.

He appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the istration over the situation, assuring government was already working on easing the tension caused by some of the mentioned factors.

Reflecting on current challenges facing the country, the President stated: “COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the economies of all countries, including Nigeria, in addition to the fact that floods have caused large scale destruction to agricultural farmlands, thereby impacting negatively on our efforts to boost local production in line with our policy to drastically reduce food importation.This, he explains, has led to food inflation which the government is working hard to address.

According to Buhari: “No government in our recent history has invested as heavily as we are doing to promote local production of about 20 other commodities, through the provision of loans and several other forms of to our farmers.

He said: “Apart from the destruction caused to rice farms by floods, middlemen have also taken advantage of the local rice production to exploit fellow Nigerians, thereby undermining our goal of ing local food production at affordable prices.”

“As an elected President who enjoys the goodwill of the ordinary people that gave us their mandate, let me assure you that we are continuing with measures to bring relief to Nigerians, including making fertilizer available at affordable prices to our farmers.”

The President also notes that the current insecurity in the country “has produced severe and adverse effects on agriculture because farmers are prevented from accessing their farms by bandits and terrorists.”

“Let me also use this opportunity to reassure Nigerians that we are taking measures to address our security challenges.We have started taking delivery of fighter aircraft and other necessary military equipment and hardware to improve the capacity of our security forces to confront terrorism and banditry,” he adds.

Speaking on the significance of the Eid El-Kabir celebration, the President appealed to Muslims “to demonstrate the good virtues of Islam through personal examples and practices: Taking advantage of the celebration to exploit fellow citizens through outrageous prices of food and rams is inconsistent with fine virtues of Islam.

“As practising believers, we shouldn’t seek obscene profits by making life difficult and miserable for others.We should not seek happiness at the expense of others. that Islam is a religion of charity that urges us to love our neighbour as we love ourselves.

“I urge all Muslims to continue to live in peace and harmony with their fellow Nigerians of other faiths in the spirit of peaceful coexistence.Let us pray for the progress of Nigeria at all times. Let us expose undesirable elements among us who are creating security problems for the country.”

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Always shifting the blame.....
This clueless terrorists infested buhari led istration is a colossus of incompetence!


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"BLAME" is a ed trademark for Naija leaders.

Same widespread deteriorating insecurity your govt have allowed to fester uncontrollably thereby affecting farmers and causing food insecurity and price inflation?

The dullard and failed president blamed middlemen in 1984 for his then military government self-inflicted pain and hardship.Today Buhari is still blaming same issues or people except himself for his cluelessness, ineptitude and incompetency.What a humanity

That floods,rain and thunder off me wetin buhari no go see for president

The President also notes that the current insecurity in the country “has... prevented from accessing their farms by bandits and terrorists.

Let me also use this opportunity to reassure Nigerians that we are taking measures to address our security challenges....

He will blame middle mean but will never blame bandits ands herdsmen na them them already we know.

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Buhari is a very nepotistic somebody. He will blame flood, blame rain, blame thunder, for rise in food price. But he will never blame Fulani Herdsmen who attack and kill farmers in Benue state the food basket of the nation.

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Just like in 1984.
Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different result.

Have there ever been enough food?

My dear average people, keep multiplying,,, you hear

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Rubbish

If Buhari is not shocked, he is blaming someone or something

Food price has been rising since 2015, should we blame the flood?

Blame PDP for 16 years of misrule.
Blame the youths for been too lazy.

Blame everybody but yourself.

Why won't food price soar high when Fulani herdsmen are killing people on a daily basis and sending others away from their farms?

Am a rice miller, villages where we always go to and buy paddy rice at very cheap price, Fulani herdsmen have invaded the whole villages and sent every villager (farmer) away.

Will price of rice remain the same when there's scarcity of the same product?

Continue blaming everybody and everything Sir, one sure truth is that you won't be there forever.

Continue. 2 years, we won't die.

We have a very foolish President

Blame blame Buhari

it's well with my country

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I'm speechless

Blame blame Buhari (BBB)

He will never blame himself, foolish man.

buhari is still shifting blame for his incompetence.. The man is not acting as a president at all,,, all these are childish

One of the things that gives me joy is knowing Buhari was our president (under democracy) twice and he failed as usual.

We'll use him to judge other Fulani aspirants in the future.

Lol

Mr President sorry but u can't give what u don't have ( u can't lead a nation). Even if buhari spend 100 years as a president, nothing good will come out of his presidency.

Was he elected to blame others?

Always blaming, useless man.
I blame yorubas till today