Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaAt FEC Meeting, Buhari, Ministers Kept Mum Over Soldiers Opening Fire on Unarmed Protesters

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The Federal Executive Council meeting was held on Wednesday and was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The meeting which held few hours after soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesting Nigerian youth in Lekki, Lagos State, and at a time there were reports of continued killings in some part of the country, saw the council keeping mum on the issue.

None of the ministers brief the State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting mentioned anything related to the killings that had turned international attention on the country.

Ministers who spoke to journalists after the meeting were the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo; and the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmood.

Minister of Health said his ministry presented a memorandum to the council on the bill to establish a Council of Traditional, Alternative and Complementary Medicine Practice in Nigeria.

He added that the memorandum was meant to take traditional and complementary medicine out of obscurity and institutionalize it as it had been done in other countries, particularly in China and India.

Ehanire said, “The outbreak of COVID-19 has renewed the call for home-grown solutions to all these public health diseases and to find the value in our traditional medicine.

“This is an opportunity with which traditional medicine practice can not only be upscaled but also be regulated because there are also areas of malpractice that should be checked.

“It will also provide for the possibility of training, setting up institutions and also being able to research further, working with the Institute of Pharmaceutical Research of Nigeria to dig out the values that are in our traditional medicines, where they can be used and be used for research.”

On his part, Adebayo said the council ratified the membership of Nigeria in the International Coffee Organization.

He said Nigeria had been having an observer status in the organization since 2008 when it signed the agreement and had seen missing out on benefits accrued to members.

He said this was because the agreement had not been ratified.

 

 

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)

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