By Abdulgafar Oladimeji.
Kano State House of Assembly has flagged off the process to rigorously confront the threat caused by the prevalence of hunger and malnutrition in neighborhoods across the state.
The speaker of the state house of assembly, Rt Hon Abdulaziz Garba Gafasa on Thursday noted that malnutrition constitutes a challenge that should be squarely and urgently addressed, adding that the role of nutrition in the development of the state cannot be overemphasized.
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The speaker in his keynote address, which was delivered by the Majority Leader of the state House of Assembly, Hon Kabiru Hassan Dashi, during two days meeting with the theme “ Improving Nutrition Investment in the 2021 state Annual Budget”, organized by Civil Society Scale Up Nutrition in Nigeria,(CS-SUN) held at Sleeprite hotel, Zaria, Kaduna state, he said “much needed to be done in our health system, especially in the area of addressing the issues of hunger and malnutrition in our neighborhood.
“the state house of assembly will relentlessly do more towards improving budgetary allocations on nutrition, as well as timely release of funds, we had the opportunity in the period under review to have budgeted over 4.5 billion through massive investment in scaling up impact and cost-effective nutrition interventions to reduce multiple burdens of malnutrition in the state.”
He reassured that the state legislators would embark on rigorous oversight functions, adding that the lawmakers will collaborate with various nutrition partners to rally together to ensure they curb the threat pose by malnutrition.
In his welcome address, Permanent Secretary, Kano state ministry of Planning/Budget and Chairman, Kano state Nutrition Committee, Balarabe Hassan Karaye noted that the meeting is aimed at creating a common understanding of the importance of investing on nutrition in the state.
According to him, Kano state is in urgent need to scale up nutrition to tackle the pervasive problem of malnutrition, adding that the immediate initiation of the process of adequate investment in nutrition to forestall the danger confronting children who are under -5 years old.
He opines that “catalyze progress toward the global nutrition target is a priority that should be given to a set of the most cost-effective nutrition interventions in the 2021 annual budget to yield significant results.”
