7 Things You Should Know On Then Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s Approval For 5.8 Billion Emergency Food Intervention Fund For North East

- IDPS and their host communities in the North East faced very severe food shortages throughout the North East.

- The United Nations World food Programme - a major food supplier to the region - had warned that it would reduce its support to about 1.8 Million IDPs by as much as 85%.

- The Federal Government set up a Strategic Food Intervention Plan for the affected states.

- It was urgent to purchases to grains and thus the CBN made the proposal for the approval of 30.9 Million Tonnes of food for the IDPs.

- The then Acting President Yemi Osinbajo approved 5.036 Billion for the purchase of these grains and another sum of 829 Million for the logistics, security, personnel and other contingency costs as requested by NEMA.

- The approvals were consitutitional and flowed from the provisions of Section 43 of the Public Procurement Act which makes provisions for making purchases without getting following the Appropriation process - this is called an Emergency Procurement.

- Section 43 of the Public Procurement Act is employed where the country or a part of it is seriously threatened by disaster, it on this ground permits a government entity to make an emergency procurement and later report to the Bureau of Public Procurement for a certification immediately after the situation.