'We may be facing starvation as a country in the next few months' the Prime Minister informed parliament in part of his statement about food security in the country.
The Prime Minister enumerated that the NCPB has only 9 million bags of maize and the strategic grain reserve has 2.3 million bags that will last until July of this year. In a country that continues to bear the brunt of famine it's unbelievable that the government has not taken steps to fix the lapses in the agricultural sector which put the country in a perennial food crisis. Unfortunately, the 'political season' has begun and any meaningful discussion on a policy on food security policy is likely to be hijacked by partisan politics.
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