Benue’s nutrition officer disclosed that 699,554 children, representing 51 per cent, were anaemic in the state.
Mr Ododo said this on Tuesday in Lokoja during a stakeholders’ meeting organised by INEC.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, announced the resolutions after closed-door deliberations on Sunday.
What the military hierarchy and the ruling party once dismissed with emphatic denials has now assumed the weight of undeniable truth.
The police in the state said they had commenced probe into the incident.
The lawmaker called for more government funding and legislative support to expand its initiatives.
He said the abduction is no longer an isolated tragedy, but a pattern and national crisis.
The commission described the incident as a threat to education and human capital development.
“A disturbing fact is that these perpetrators move freely with their cattle under open grazing, despite the existence of an anti-open-grazing law,” said the Benue lawmaker.
He said Mr Tinubu must rise to the challenges of governance.
