Following the recent hike in the prices of food items, the federal government has announced plans to release crucial food commodities from the Grain reserves.

This comes after an emergency meeting of the Special Presidential Committee on Emergency Food Intervention.

The committee assured Nigerians that there was no food shortage, and alleged that saboteurs were capitalising on the  Naira’s depreciation to escalate the cost of food items.

The Minister of Information Mohammed Idris said: “We just rounded off a meeting. It is a special presidential committee to address the issue of food shortage or lack of enough food on the table of most Nigerians.

 “What I will tell Nigerians is that the President has directed that government needs to step in to stem this tide. Government will not fold its arms and see the way Nigerians are suffering in terms of the availability of these food items.

 “Now, some of these will involve unlocking the foods that are available in most of the storage facilities (National Food Reserve) around the country. You know that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture has some food reserves. They are going to be made available to Nigerians. ⁣

“What the government is noticing is that there is still food in this country. Some people are taking advantage of the situation, especially because of the high cost and the depreciation in the value of our currency that has led to the cost of these food items also going up”.⁣