A former Managing Director (MD) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Ibim Semenitari, has lamented that hungry Nigerians can no longer afford garri to drink once a day.

Semenitari, a former Commissioner for Information and Communications in Rivers State who spoke with Inside Sources with Laolu Akande on Channels Television urged President Bola Tinubu to address the food security situation in the country.

Speaking on the programme, the former NDDC boss pleaded with President Tinubu-led administration to do something fast about the situation in the country as things are going south.

She said that Tinubu should demonstrate leadership and not spend the country’s scarce resources on a new private jet during the time of austerity.

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She, however, called on the President to introspect about the kind of legacy he wants to leave for Nigerians.

According to her, “The first thing therefore was the issue of food security. If people can even eat.

“The President should think in terms of legacy: ‘When I’m done, what would I be remembered by?’ And the truth is that his aides can’t determine that because legacy is a personal thing. It is not something that sycophants can give you.

“Nigerians are literally unable to eat. I’m not talking about three-square meals. We are not even talking about three-round meals; we are talking about one meal a day because the cost of garri which is a staple has gone up.

“People are paying N22,000 for a basin of garri; they used to buy it at N6,000. Garri was something that if you didn’t have money for soup, you would give your children garri, and they would drink it without sugar. Now, they can’t.”