Shettima Tasks PFSCU On Food Security

Vice President Kashim Shettima has implored the Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit (PFSCU) to act on the bid to ensure food security in Nigeria, saying Nigerians were only keen on results rather than rhetoric.

He said while there had been many presidential initiatives, the challenge had always been implementation, noting that the PFSCU is in a vantage position to catalyse the nation’s food security challenges into progress.

According to a statement by his spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha, Senator Shettima gave the charge on Thursday during the second meeting of the PFSCU constituted as part of efforts by the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to tackle hunger and hardship in Nigeria.

The vice president had in July this year inaugurated the PFSCU formed under the Presidential Economic Coordinating Council following a memo submitted to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the need to come up with a food systems council to address food insecurity in the country.

Speaking during the second meeting of the PFSCU with the states, development partners, and other critical stakeholders, VP Shettima urged the unit to move beyond rural farming and initiate urban agriculture the way it is done in countries like Cuba and other advanced nations.