BREAKING: Stop all Foreign Food Importation - Buhari Orders Central Bank
According to PREMIUM TIMES Reports, The President Muhammadu Buhari has Offical directed the Central Bank of Nigeria not to provide foreign exchange for the importation of food, saying his administration has achieved food security.
Mr Buhari said this in Daura, Katsina, on Tuesday as he hosted APC governors to Eid-el-Kabir lunch, his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said in a statement.
"Don't give a cent to anybody to import food into the country," the president was quoted as saying.
"We have achieved food security, and for physical security we are not doing badly," he said.
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Daura, Katsina State, disclosed that he has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop providing foreign exchange for importation of food into the country, with the steady improvement in agricultural production, and attainment of full food security.
The President, who hosted All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to Eid-el-Kabir lunch at his country home in Daura, said the foreign reserve will be conserved and utilized strictly for diversification of the economy, and not for encouraging more dependence on foreign food import bills.
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