 All right, Honourable Tarjan Abbas, the Speaker of the House of Representatives at the short night during the Federal Government's Commitment to Food, Sufficiency and Addressing Hunger and Manutrition during the inauguration of the House Committee on Nutrition and Food Security. Let me also re-emphasise the position of the House to improve food and nutrition for our people. In our resolve as a House to tame hunger and malnutrition, pursue food security and sustainable development, we prioritise agricultural development as a key legislative agenda based on our strong belief that the agricultural sector is a critical factor in growing the nation's economy and scaling down poverty rates. Honourable Chair of the House Committee on Nutrition and Food Security praised the House leadership's decision to establish a specialised Committee focusing on food security and nutrition. This is more worrisome in the context of reports that most farmers in neighboring border states now prefer to sell their produce to markets outside the country to earn more than they would have earned selling them within Nigeria on account of currency fluctuation. In the light of the above, this Committee deems it wise to propose the Declaration of State of Emergency in Nutrition and Food Security in Nigeria to address the issue with a required sense of urgency and multi-stakeholder strategic participatory approach. The mandate of our Committee can be summarised thus to urgently arrest the growing food crisis and malnutrition, which have become a serious threat to security and national development by examining existing extant laws, evaluating their effectiveness, strengthening grey areas and adopting an impactful synergy among the relevant MDAs. That's a good back to my address, Minister of Border and Economic Planning, praise the legislature's effort addressing the food crisis, alighting the Ministry of Agriculture's dual role in food security. When you called the administration under former President Mohamed Buhairi, a National Food Security Council was created, chaired by the President himself, and I was privileged to be the Vice Chair of that National Food Security, and what led to it is a recognition that food security is not an agriculture issue, it's not a health issue, it's not an environment issue, it's not a physical security issue, it's all of it, and you need to have stakeholders around the table so that we can appreciate, we can better, and the same thing with nutrition.