Nigeria’s First Lady, Dr. Aisha
Buhari has noted that Nigeria may not have competent young adults to run the
government, business and academia in the future if the problem of malnutrition
is not solved.
Mrs Buhari, who was represented
by Mrs. Oludolapo Osinbajo, Wife of the Vice President, spoke at the virtual
National Nutrition Summit Held on Tuesday.
A statement on
Wednesday by Aliyu Abdullahi, Special Assistant to the President on Media &
Publicity, said that Mrs Buhari charged stakeholders to end the scourge of
malnutrition ravaging Nigerian children so that they can survive, thrive and
possess the requisite cognitive ability to handle the future.
To ignore this, she said, is to
mortgage our future, “because tomorrow, we would not have competent young
adults to run government, businesses or even academia.”
“By now we are certain that the
Government and people of Nigeria are not oblivious of the nutrition situation
in the country.
“We have also made some progress in recent
years, especially having more stakeholders talking about Nutrition, and getting
more nutrition-sensitive budget lines at Federal and State levels,” She said.
Mrs. Buhari also drew attention
to the current global pandemic, which has worsened the situation by moving all
attention and resources towards the containment of COVID-19 virus and
unconsciously excluding vulnerable children in the process. She stated that
their lives are equally important.
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