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The Federal Government has spent a total of N9.74bn on the procurement and distribution of food items as part of efforts to mitigate the impact of the food crisis across the country in 2024.

This is according to data from BudgIT’s platform, GovSpend, a civic-tech organisation advocating for transparency and ability.

A significant portion of the funds was allocated for the supply of rice, beans, maize, and other staple food items.

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security spearheaded these initiatives, with multiple payments made to contractors for the emergency supply of palliative foodstuffs to federal constituencies across the country.

Among the key transactions were payments to contractors for the supply of rice, beans, and gari, aimed at alleviating hunger in vulnerable communities.

Payments, often amounting to approximately N85.45m per constituency, were carried out across various regions from February to November 2024.

Data revealed that the same amount of N85,454,545.46 was expended for each federal constituency that benefited from the palliatives in states including Kano, Ogun, Osun, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Adamawa, Kaduna, Jigawa, Ekiti, Oyo, Lagos, Bauchi, Rivers, Borno, Sokoto, and Enugu, bringing the total expenditure to N9.74bn.


Despite this substantial financial outlay, concerns have been raised about the programme’s effectiveness in addressing the root causes of food insecurity.

An economist at Lotus Beta Analytics, Shedrach Israel, argued that palliatives alone cannot resolve Nigeria’s food crisis.

“While food palliatives are crucial for addressing immediate hunger, they do not tackle the systemic issues contributing to food insecurity, such as inflation and structural deficiencies in agricultural systems.

“We need sustainable economic policies that prioritise increasing local agricultural productivity and improving distribution networks to reduce dependency on external food aid,” he said.

Israel added that the N9.74bn spent on food palliatives could have been invested in long-term agricultural innovations and infrastructure development, which would provide lasting solutions to food insecurity.

Similarly, a Kaduna-based agricultural economist, La’ah Dauda, highlighted the need for a more holistic approach to tackling the food crisis.

“The government’s focus on distributing palliatives is a short-term fix to an ongoing agricultural crisis. While essential, these measures fail to address underlying issues such as inadequate irrigation systems, insufficient storage facilities, and weak market access that continue to hinder agricultural productivity across the country,” he said.

Source: https://punchng.com/FG-spent-N9.74bn-on-food-palliatives-Report

Wasting N9.74 bn on palliatives, rather used the money to improve local industries, they preferred to loot it to buy houses abroad. Yet the oppressed will be hailing them. One loaf of bread, 1 kg of rice, garri.

Rice palliative solution.

i thought it'd be more than this figure. Anyway, they should work on the long term fix, because this short term fix doesn't really fix anything.

This istration is a complete failure

iwaeda:
Wasting N9.74 bn on palliatives, rather used the money to improve local industries, they preferred to loot it to buy houses abroad. Yet the oppressed will be hailing them. One loaf of bread, 1 kgof rice, garri.

Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

Audio palliative for the mandate gbola riders. Make una no worry, THIEFnvbu is not done impoverishing una, by the time he is done, una go see paper call am naira

Alhamdulillah I'm not qualified for the palliative. Even if na gaari we see we go drink.

wow

Anyway, Agriculture is life

₦‎9.74 Billions sharing rice

As usual 80% of such money 💰 disappeared
into the deep pockets of crooked APC politicians.


APC always come up with schemes to defraud
and steal from the masses.

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Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

And subsidy on fuel and electricity is wrong?
This istration and her economy team are gross incompetent. Complete olodo

Toh

Remove subsidy

Loot subsidy

Rinse, repeat

Who has an update on those guys singing on your mandate inside black Maria? Have they been released? I know a NLer who was there and I fear for his safety in this era of baby oil

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Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

Oponu apoda, tell us those who received those palliatives❗️

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Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

PDP is a far better party in govt that this disaster called APC
Comparing both is like the seven fat cows and the seven lean cows in Pharaoh's dream
I'm sure everyone can relate which one is the fat cows and which is the lean cows

Sensitivity:
Oponu apoda, tell us those who received those palliatives❗️

yarimo, mannabbqgrillz, helinues, freestuffs.madrid guy and his fellow almajiri moozelims. Apc urchins and miscreants

HenryThegreat1:
This istration is a complete failure

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Pátápátá.

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Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

palliatives are shared in war torn countries or disease ravaged countries or at the event of natural disasters.


Apc brought disaster and backwardness and hence the palliatives. I hope you don collect sha

Make hunger no kill your mummy at home. Be careful of stampede too

What’s our entire population in the country, spending this amount of money on palliative is highly ridiculous and has no positive effect on the masses. It’s just so unfortunate where we found ourselves

Corruption is here to stay under Tinubu



it's not going anywhere

zombies get used to hunger

Cashout cashout

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Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

The palliative reach u or anyone u know?

Three quarter of the said amount will be in private pockets by now.

I talk am say dey go bring their bill one day for all these audio rice they claimed to be sharing.

Enoughpull:
Cashout cashout

Hmmmmm🤔

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i thought it'd be more than this figure. Anyway, they should work on the long term fix, because this short term fix doesn't really fix anything.

Honestly.

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Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

Keep shut!!! You ignorant fellow! It is backward thinking people like you that have made it possible for African politicians to behave the way they want because they already know that they have gullible people out there who wouldn't mind licking their asses for every bad policy they make.

Wasting funds. They would had invested the money into food production and security. Palliative is just a temporary measure that won't get to all.

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Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

Surely nothing wrong with sharing palliatives but something could be wrong with palliatives..

1. If a percentage of the money gets diverted to government officials.
2. If the Palliatives are given to the wrong persons, those who don't really need them.
3. If the quantity that gets to people for instance is 2 cups of rice, 1 indomie and 10 cubes of maggi.

All of the above I have seen with my owns very eyes..

Budgeting money for palliatives should be a criminal offence in Nigeria.

It is still more sensible to use the money to subsidize something of benefit to a great part of the poor population.

Electricity
Fuel
Public transportation