A two-time Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta State, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, has warned that Nigeria is gradually sliding into acute food shortage, saying that action needs to be taken urgently.
Muoboghare further warned that what Nigerians are currently going through will be a child’s play by next year if the Nigerian government fails to provide security for farmers to return to their farmlands across the country.
He specifically called on President Bola Tinubu to ensure security of lives of farmers in agricultural states of Benue, Plateau, Kwara, Niger, Delta, Sokoto and others known for huge farm produce in the country.
He blamed the current food shortage in the country majorly on the activities of armed herdsmen, deplorable State of roads and absence of food processing plants in the country.
Prof Muoboghare gave the warning in a lecture he delivered at the 7th Southern Zonal Conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) held at the PTI Conference Centre, Effurun in Uvwie, Delta State.
In a paper titled “Food Security And Sustainable Agriculture In Nigeria how Achievable?”, Muoboghare, who is also the General Overseer of Stepat Farms at Edjekota in Ogor town in Ughelli North, demanded for a deliberate policy to address the issues of insecurity and good roads to transport produce to markets.
The former education commissioner charged the Federal Government to come up with necessary policies like; buying off produce, concession of deplorable roads and flushing out killer herdsmen from farmlands across the country.
