Stop Crying, No Quick Solution To End Your Hunger - Buhari Tells Nigerians

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President Muhammadu Buhari, has on Tuesday, August 9, said that there is no quick solution to the present challenges of hunger confronting the nation.

Buhari, who made this shocking revelation through the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, during a dramatic town hall meeting, held in Abuja, insisted that Nigerians have to exercise more patience.

During the meeting, the Sultan of Sokoto and Chairman of the occasion, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, set the tone for the interactions between Buhari’s nine Ministers and members of the public, when he said in his opening remarks that Buhari’s policies should be reviewed, if they were not working.

He said, “If policies don’t work, there is nothing wrong in reviewing them. The government must be open to suggestions.

“If the people say they are hungry, the government should listen to them”.

Reacting, the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who was queried on ghost workers, said, “There is no quick solution to the present challenge. There is a fundamental problem, but if we can be patient, we shall get there.

“We have a conservative borrowing programme; and we must borrow to do rail and other projects, the rail that we have now was done in the colonial era.

“We have to do rail to enable agriculture and solid minerals to be competitive. I don’t see any other option than to borrow.

“We will borrow sustainably; we will borrow to make sure that we don’t burden future generations.

“We have been borrowing in the past to pay salaries; now we borrow to invest”.

In his speech, the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said, “There is a cry in the air that Nigerians are hungry, and we hear them loud and clear. There are also unbelievable stories about people taking their children as human collateral for food, with no intentions to pick them up.

“This situation in Nigeria today was going to happen; whether it is this administration or another. We headed this way a long time ago.

‘‘In 1986, we were forced to devalue and deregulate. We were forced to open our doors to importation. We began devaluing the naira. We have done it steadily for 30 years. We are now N400 to one dollar and we are told to continue devaluing; that devaluation will bring wonders. I don’t believe it.

“I hope we don’t hit N1,000 to $1 someday, because the demand for dollars is $2.5 billion a week, and I have this from high authorities within the system.

“We simply don’t have it. We don’t print dollars, but the people are angry that we are not making dollars available. We became importers of rice; $5 million a day; wheat, $6 million a day; tomato paste, $400 million a year; and $20 billion a year on food’’.

Other Ministers that addressed the gathering include: Geoffrey Onyeama (Foreign Affairs), Kayode Fayemi (Solid Minerals Development), Amina Mohammed (Environment) and Prof. Isaac Adewole (Health). - POST NIGERIA

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