This was even as the Red Chamber also called on the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to liaise with development partners and other relevant stakeholders, especially the Lagos Food Bank Initiative, which introduced Temporary Food Assistance Programme, TEFAP, few years ago.
It maintained that the introduction of the programe has become necessary “with a view to working out practicable templates and implementable modalities for the actualisation of the programme.”
These resolutions followed a motion sponsored by the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Ali Ndume and co-sponsored by Senator Saliu Mustapha as well as majority of others during plenary.
Food stamps is a supplemental nutrition assistance programme that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people to help them maintain adequate nutrition and health.
