AFAN Harps On Restoration Of Food Security

President of ALL Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Arch Kabir Ibrahim, has called on all state governments, especially those in the Northern part of the country, to key into the drive for the restoration of security in order to ensure the attainment of sustainable National Food Security in the country.
Making the call in a statement made available to the press, he said insecurity is the foremost threat factor to the attainment of food security in Nigeria
According to him, the state governments in the North should work jointly and collectively to ensure the restoration of normalcy or the whole country might go hungry.
Ibrahim advised that all efforts by the state governments in the North to stem insecurity should coalesce under one umbrella to be called “Northern Nigeria Security Initiative” (NNSI) under the chairmanship of Northern Governors’ Forum.
He noted that the forum would be assisted by a team headed by a Director General who knows what to do.
“Each of the 19 States, including the FCT, should contribute one billion naira each sustainably to a common pool, thereby pulling a large resource base at the end of December, 2022.
“Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) should intervene with the sum of one trillion naira within the same period”, he said.
Ibrahim added that a critical mass of 2,000 young able-bodied youth to be paid an honorarium of 20,000 monthly from each of the 19 Northern states and probably FCT should be recruited to form a ‘vigilante group’ to keep the peace among their  peers but through ‘non-kinetic’ means.
Speaking further, he said the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) should partner with each of the 19 state governments and FCT to proactively fight drug use and trafficking by impounding and destroying identified drug peddling enclaves or dens of drug dealers as well as abusers.
“All the forests which now apparently provide safe-haven to bandits and marauders should be combed, defoliated and in some cases sectorially bulldozed as well as immediately converted into cultivable as well as irrigable land forthwith.
“Regular town hall meetings in all villages and hamlets under the direct supervision of our revered traditional rulers should be convened contiguously all over the North with a view to sensitising everybody to the impending disaster facing the possible continued existence of the entire North and the whole country at large”, he said