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Nigeria: Country Has Capacity to Tackle Food Crisis - Okonjo-Iweala
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This Day (Lagos)
12 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Victor Efeziomor
Asaba
Former Finance Minister , Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala hassaid that the Federal Government has the capacity andpropensity to tackle the current food crisis that hasgenerated a lot of concern around the world. Iweala who is currently a Managing Director with the World Bank Group spoke yesterday in Oguashi-Uku, Delta State, saying that there was no need for Nigerians to panic because the country has not utilized forty percent of its arable land that can be cultivated for agriculture .
She urged the Federal Government to partner the United Nations and World Bank for assistance inrealizing this objective. Okonjo-Iweala said she was in support of the initiatives of the National Assembly in probing the various sector of the economy if that will bring in the desired sanity into the system. "The probe is okay , if some one wants to find out thetruth , let us find out the truth , there is noproblem , but the bottom line is that , we shouldalso look at the technical reasons , why we do nothave power and deliver power to the people, " she said.
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