Francis Fadahunsi, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Industry, has called for Nigerians to get back to farming and produce a lot of food in order to lessen the nation’s present hunger crisis.
Speaking to reporters in Ilase-Ijesa, Osun State, on Tuesday, the legislator, who is the senator for Osun State’s Osun East Senatorial District, revealed this.
The lawmaker predicted that Nigerians will breathe a sigh of relief before the end of this year, and he praised President Bola Tinubu for heeding suggestions on how to combat poverty.
“I am farming. Everybody should farm. If there is no hunger, automatically, we will be thinking right. The development is coming. What I have seen in the National Assemblies is real, and so on.
“Automatically, before the end of this year, things will go down. Just recently, when we went for the NEC meeting, President Tinubu advised the governors to go deep into the local areas and invest more.
“That’s an executive order, and I am very sure any Governor that does not do that will lose his credibility because of the quantum of money being allocated to them,” Fadahunsi said.
In addition to saying that he has personally assisted in organizing people for the activity, he urged all individuals of voting age who do not possess a Permanent Voters Card to take part in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration.
He said, “I have personally gone around to ensure that stakeholders who will facilitate the process are actively on board. Particularly, reaching the Kings, custodians of cultural heritage, and community leaders.
“We are urging people in the community to register. Including the longtime settlers in our environment, the Hausa farmers, Fulani herdsmen, and the Igedes. They all must register and get a PVC.”