The Action Democratic Party (ADP) has described as ‘alarming’ the surge in insecurity and hunger in the country.

ADP National Chairman, Yabaji Sani, at a press briefing yesterday in Abuja, decried that bandits have driven farmers off their land, while the cost of inputs and other commodities continue to soar.

He said: “Food now consumes over 60% of household income for low-income families.”

The former presidential candidate told President Bola Tinubu to deploy real-time digital metering across the value chain to end cases of oil theft that is affecting the revenue generation.

Sani said the absence of transparent, end-to-end metering—from wellheads to flow stations, pipelines, and export terminals—enables theft, manipulation, and revenue leakage.

He observed that the Weights and Measures Department (WMD) of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment is constitutionally mandated to ensure legal, accurate, and fair measurement.

He said: Yet WMD inspectors have been unlawfully restricted from accessing petroleum measurement facilities. No nation serious about revenue protection sidelines its legal metrology authority.

“Nigeria must urgently revamp and modernise the WMD, restore its unrestricted statutory access, deploy real-time digital metering across the value chain and enforce independent verification and calibration.”

Speaking on the new tax policy that is expected to commence next year, he said the Nigeria’s tax data is a strategic national asset and must be protected from unholy intrusion or opaque foreign control.

He added that “women constitute nearly half of Nigeria’s population, yet account for less than 4% of parliamentary representation, among the lowest.

“History shows Nigerian women have always played leadership in social and economic movements globally.” (The Sun)