Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Development Partners, State Leaders, Community
Champions, and Friends of Humanity,
Today, we are not simply launching a plan. We are issuing a call — a call to conscience, to
collaboration, and to coordinated action in the face of an urgent, preventable crisis.
We gather here for Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe — states whose people have endured more
than their fair share of hunger, loss, and uncertainty. In the upcoming lean season, projections
show that millions are at risk of severe food insecurity, with many children facing the specter of
malnutrition, some acutely. Behind every data point is a mother skipping meals so her children
can eat, a farmer whose fields are dry and unsafe, and a child whose physical and cognitive
development is already compromised by hunger.
This is not just a humanitarian issue — it is a moral one. It is a challenge to the promise of the
Renewed Hope Agenda. And it is a test of our capacity to act not when it is convenient, but
when it is necessary.
Today, we launch a Multisector Plan that brings together food assistance, nutrition, health, water
and sanitation, protection, agriculture, and early recovery — because no single sector can fix
hunger, and no single intervention can break the cycle of crisis.
This plan is homegrown but evidence-based. It is built on lessons from the past, but powered by
innovation and foresight.
We are leveraging the National Social Register, geotagged to enable real-time vulnerability
mapping. We are integrating digital targeting to reach displaced persons and host communities
more efficiently and transparently. And we are anchoring the plan in local leadership because
ownership at the state and LGA level is not optional — it is essential.
Let me be clear: the Federal Government will lead from the front — not just in coordinating this
response but in ensuring alignment with national policy, clarity of roles, and accountability of
outcomes. We will support state structures, empower frontline actors, and ensure every kobo is
traceable and impactful.
But this plan is not just about structures and strategies. It is about a promise — that no child in
Borno, Adamawa, or Yobe should have to sleep hungry when the world has enough food; that
no mother should lose a child to a condition we know how to treat, and that dignity must never
be a casualty of conflict or poverty.
To our international and local partners: we value your technical expertise, your field presence,
and your commitment. This plan invites not just your continued support, but your alignment.
Alignment with national systems, with state authorities, and with the people whose resilience we
are here to reinforce — not replace.
Let us also be honest: this is not a one-off intervention. The lean season is seasonal, but our
response must be strategic. This plan lays the foundation for a durable system that links
emergency response with long-term recovery. It is not enough to feed — we must also restore
livelihoods, rebuild health, and reclaim futures.
So today, I invite all of us to move beyond silos, to rise above mandates, and to act in unity —
because the cost of inaction will be counted not just in numbers, but in names, faces, and
futures lost.
I hereby declare the 2025 Lean Season Food Security and Nutrition Crisis Multisector Plan for
Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe officially launched.
Let us now go forth and deliver on this promise — with speed, with integrity, and above all, with
humanity.
Thank you, and may God bless the work of our hands.
By the Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction