…Says 2.1m beneficiaries already captured
The World Food Programme, (WFP), has pledged to support President Tinubu’s Zero Hunger Programme under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
Country Director of WFP, David Stevesson, made this known on Tuesday, when he led a team of the United Nations, (UN) agency to visit the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, in her office.
Stevesson disclosed that 2.1 million Nigerians have already been captured as beneficiaries of the program with the hope to expand working with the minister of humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
He pledged WFP’s support to the Federal Government’s humanitarian and poverty intervention efforts including the food security agenda and the Zero Hunger Programme among others.
According to him, the organisation was excited by the robust drive of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to eradicate poverty and reduce humanitarian crises in Nigeria and the new energy which the Minister, Dr. Betta Edu, is bringing into the space. He expressed the hope that they accomplish a lot together.
The Minister informed Stevesson that there are over 133 million people in Nigeria affected by multidimensional poverty, stressing that WFP’s intervention of $2.5billion for five years “will go a long way to address some of the biggest challenges the country is facing, which is hunger”.
According to the Minister, ‘Zero Hunger’ is one of the projects her Ministry has initiated as part of poverty and humanitarian response efforts, and appealed to the WFP to key-into it by working with the Ministry to achieve results.
