President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday ordered the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to facilitate the release and distribution of grains and palliatives to residents to cushion the effect of the current economic hardship bedevilling the nation.
This was disclosed by the Minister of State for the FCT, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, in an emergency meeting with stakeholders and chairmen of the six area councils of the FCT.
Mahmoud stated that President Tinubu gave the directive in a letter from the Presidency, through the National Emergency Management Authority, to the FCT minister.
According to her, “Everybody knows how His Excellency, Mr. President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been going up and down to see how he will cushion the effect of the hardship in the country, especially the issue of food security. They have been having meetings through the Ministry of Agriculture, and finally, we were able to get a lot that we have to distribute for our people, to tell us how Mr. President has his people in his heart.
“So it was along this way that the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, was addressed through this letter, to call an important meeting with important stakeholders that were highlighted, most of whom are here, to see how we arrange some committees for transparency of the distribution of these palliatives that we are about to get and then the preparation that we need to have, before these items are given to FCT for distribution,” she said.
News About Nigeria reports that the president’s directive came on the heels of an attack by Abuja residents on a warehouse belonging to the Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat of the FCT Administration in the Gwagwa-Tasha area of Abuja.
The residents had attacked the warehouse for food items.
