National Assembly To Receive Food Hygiene Bill

National President of FHIN Mr. Nicolas Karimu has said that a bill on the Food Hygiene Initiative of Nigeria (FHIN) will be presented to the National Assembly next week.

Karimu said there will be a meeting with the lawmaker on the bill before the official presentation.

He spoke in Abuja at the passing out parade ceremony of 500 officers in Abuja.

They were trained by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), at their academy.

Karimu said they have been working with the Federal Ministry of Health and currently in 21 states.

He said, “It is about seven months we have been working on the bill. Our lawyers are through with the bill and in the next two week it will be presented to the National Assembly.

We have put together a very good bill that would assist the country fight against food and water diseases. The bill is called Food Hygiene Initiative of Nigeria, (FHIN) Act 2016. By next week we will have meeting with the lawmakers At the National Assembly before the presentation of the bill.

“We are in about 21 states, we are creating awareness, organizing workshops, training food vendors, inspecting their activities on daily basis and reporting back to the Federal Ministry of Health. We have saved a lot of lives.

“This organisation was established in November 2014. We have up to 1000 staff across the country. We are hoping to train more because our target is to get up to 7,000 staff that will cover the entire country. My message to the graduating people is that they should come and apply and stop saying that there is no job when there is job. Like now what we are going our staff is allowance and we do have our source of income.

“After training those food vendors we issue them certificate of training. With that certificate we generate little revenue that comes into the purse of the organization.”

He disclosed that all the security agencies except the military are aware of FHIN activities with strong collaborations for effective delivery.

The Provost of Civil Defense Academy, Commandant Waheed Popoola expressed optimism that FHIN would be diligent at discharging its duties.