Subsidy Removal: Eden Group Partners Abuja Cooperative For Affordable Food

Eden Group through its innovative e-moringa food and logistics has commenced partnership with the Abuja Cooperative Federation to make its food products more affordable for Nigerians.

Using cooperative model, the collaboration aimed to deliver installment payment system for a period of five months for food items that cost 55,000 naira in package.

The project, tagged: “Operation Feed the Nation” is intended to serve both government workers and private individual with a registered membership of cooperative society across the nation and help them achieve zero hunger objective.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja during a working visit to the secretariat of Abuja Cooperative Federation yesterday, chief executive officer of Eden Group, Dr Michael Ashimashiga said the package product and services will go far to reduce the effect of high cost of food on the vulnerable member of society in the era of financial burden occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal.

According to him, the cooperative will pay 20 per cent of the total cost of the food items while individual pays the balance of 80 per cent for the period of five months.

He said, “This product is to help and then liaise with this cooperative that we have paid a working visit to them to show them our products and services so that they can in turn, reach out to all the cooperative, who are recognised units in every sector and take some of these products given to the staff or registered members and then they pay for them gradually”.

In his remarks, president, Abuja Cooperative Federation, Emmanuel Atama assured the group of his commitment to key into the innovation which he described as cooperative, instrumentality towards eliminating hunger in line with goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals agenda.’’