Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has appealed to Bola Tinubu to urgently address the high cost of food items in the country.
Mr Oyintiloye, in a chat with journalists on Sunday in Osogbo, said many Nigerians were living below the poverty line and disillusioned, wondering where the next meal will come from due to the extreme economic hardship.
He stated that the common household food items were getting out of the reach of the common man due to the hike in prices.
The APC chieftain noted that despite working hard under different dehumanising working conditions, what Nigerians earn is still not enough to support themselves and their families due to inflation.
In his words, “Despite the abundance in natural and human resources, the country is blessed with, successive governments have failed to drive the economy productively.
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“There is need for the government to put in place the price control mechanism to checkmate the sharp practices by the traders in the market.
Mr Oyintiloye, however, urged Tinubu to consider the reopening of the Benin Republic border for the importation of food to solve the problem of food crisis.
The APC chieftain further added that the challenge of insecurity preventing farmers from going to their farms should be addressed, while subsidised farm inputs should be given to them and good incentives should be made available to agriculture to attract the younger ones.
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