No foreign exchange will be issued for food imports – Buhari.

President Muhammudu Buhari issued a note of warning to the Central Bank against implementing plans geared towards providing forex for th e importation of food items and fertilizers.

The President made this remark via his Twitter handle on Thursday, September 10th as he presided over the National Food Security Council meeting yesterday at the State House, Abuja.

I am restating it that nobody importing food or fertilizer should be given foreign exchange from the Central Bank. We will not pay a kobo of our foreign reserves to import food or fertilizer. We will instead empower local farmers and producers.

— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) September 10, 2020

In addition to this he claimed that Nigeria has a lot of people that are willing to work making it clear that “agriculture is the answer”.