 MRO President of the Senate, Gotswil Apabio, has declared that recent protests witnessed in some states on the harsh economic situation in the country are sponsored. Apabio made the declaration in Tuesday plenary, after the presentation of a report of the Joint Committee on Banking, Finance and National Planning, Agriculture and Appropriation, headed by Senator Abdullah Iyachaya. While stressing the need to immediately address this issue of hunger in the country, Apabio revealed that in the last few months, state governments received 30 billion naira each to tackle the current hardship faced by citizens. We can see a lot of sponsored protests here and there, but those people are not aware. Most of those sponsored protests are not aware of the kind of efforts being made by the Senate to tackle the situation, together with the Joint Management Team of the federal government on Nigeria. And I must say that unverified report has it that each of the state governments in the last few months have received additional 30 billion from the federal and land revenue service, outside their normal allocations from the federal account, outside their normal allocations, to assist them in ameliorating the full situation. So we believe that every state government should utilize the funds so received towards ensuring that food is available. Menwari, in an extensive debate, Senator Adamu Alero, argued that some state governors, including some retired ones in the Senate, were beneficiaries of 18 billion naira as a shock absorber under the ways and means since 2015. Each state government in 2023 was given 18 billion naira at once, some of the governors benefited from that 18 billion naira are here. I'm sure the governor-in-law can confirm that. The Senate president thereafter maintained that only to the current economic situation it has become expedient to thoroughly examine the ways and means funds. About 30 trillion ways, I mean not what President Tiribu can bring. This Senate will not robustamp anything that we feel is not in the interest of Nigerians. And that is the reason why we are discussing. Am I right or wrong? Those who are in support of what the Senate president is saying, say, ah, ah, those they can say naira, the expenses that we don't have details put us in the indebtedness that we have today. And therefore has affected even the ability of government to provide essential needs and services for the public that we need to look into those things. Exclude the fact that we can say go and investigate what we pass. So we are open to investigation and there was a caveat at that time that we are going to investigate, the details must be provided so we are waiting. Any time the Senate feels that we should go to investigate that, we investigate that. So for one now to say, for what happened then was a collective responsibility and it was done in the interest of the nation and in line with our collaborative in the stance with the executive arm of government. So the National Assembly to find out what happened. Mr. President, Mr. colleagues, nobody in this chamber should suggest that we shouldn't look to anything that we fail is in the public interest. But let me say this very clearly, what Nigerians want today is food. What Nigerians wants today is food and security. This belongs to the medium term or long term. And that we need to take.