To increase the knowledge of its members on food security, the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) has joined with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation Read and Earn Federation (UNESCO REF).
At a one-day sensitization workshop on Monday in Abuja, POWA President Mrs. Elizabeth Egbetokun expressed this.
In order to achieve the second United Nations goal of “ZERO HUNGER,” Egbetokun stated that the workshop would increase the capacity of POWA members on its PET project.
The President Bola Tinubu’s mandate to solve food shortage and hunger, she claimed, would enable the collaboration to be realised.
In order to combat the nation’s food insecurity, she asked POWA members to embrace and align with President Bola Tinubu’s agenda.
Egbetokun, who is also the wife of the Inspector General of Police, expressed her gratitude to the UNESCO REF for helping to address the critical problem of food scarcity in Nigeria.
To work with the current administration to combat the food insecurity that President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency, I think your unwavering support would be required.
The workshop, according to her, “will address the urgent problem of food scarcity in Nigeria and, most importantly, steps towards a progressive and successful implementation of our goals to make our women more relevant in today’s society.”
Building the ability of POWA members on effective involvement and implementation of action plan, according to Prince Abdulsalami Ladigbolu, President of UNESCO REF, will go a long way towards addressing the country’s food scarcity.
He claims that the workshop, a non-kinetic strategy, will enhance national security through agriculture.
The workshop’s goal is to improve national security while also solving the nation’s food problem.
“In our view, a society is doomed if it does not engage in research and development. Increasing food security by cultivating 500,000 tonnes of land is one of President Tinubu’s goals, as he has stated.
Because a hungry person is an angry person, Ladigbolu remarked, “food security affects all of us.”
He asserts that in order to avoid a food crisis, we must do some kind of advance preparation. We’re referring to the subsequent course of action.
Climate change is a contributing factor to food insecurity.
“When we don’t have food, we encroach on farmland, and on the ones that are available, we keep planting until the nutrients are no longer there, and then we depend on fertiliser to boost the crops,” he explained.
Additionally, he said that the project’s leaders had chosen the executives of POWA to take the initiative in addressing the food scarcity.
He asserts that the initiative will increase the agricultural value chain, reserve foreign exchange through economic diversification, and increase the production of specialised agricultural products and sustainably produced food in the nation.
“Issues that are in line with a country’s interests and ambitions are to be addressed by the UNESCO REF, according to its mission. Because of this, everything we’re doing is in line with the issues.
“We must be proactive in addressing Nigeria’s top issues, including its health, education, and agriculture.
“Hooligans exist in the absence of education, which breeds insecurity. The project must thus engage everyone, he said.
