Expert backs food importation subsidy

A Political Economist and Professor of Strategy and Development, Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies, Anthony Kila, has thrown his weight behind the importation and subsidy of food as a means of dealing with the current food crisis in Nigeria.

Kila made his position known while addressing an international forum of African and Caribbean political economists, on a webinar organised to discuss economic and developmental opportunities in African and Caribbean countries. 

According to him, the situation Nigeria is dealing with is inflation-induced largely by the sudden and astronomical increase in the cost of production and distribution, as well as reduction in volume and variety of production. 

He stated that a pragmatic short-term solution would be to import and subsidize food for as many people as possible. 

Rescuers search for body of woman who jumped into Lagos river

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“There is an emergency in the country and there is nothing wrong with importing and subsidising food to deal with the current food crisis. We can do both as a temporary measure till we can secure farming lands and grow more food; and we need about 10,000 subsidised food outlets across the country to manage the emergency,” he said.