Buhari says he's committed to reducing poverty, hunger in Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari says reducing extreme poverty and hunger is one of the cardinal's objectives of his administration. The president stated this in a keynote address at the Nigeria high-level side event on ‘SDG Integration – Bridging the Policy Planning – Budgeting Gap for the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.’  

President Buhari at the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA74) on Tuesday in New York. Stated that the rate of poverty in Nigeria is the root cause of insecurity in the country. But forgot to address corruption among politicians, cabinent members and government officials which have resulted in inadequate economy planning and poor governance. There is a lot of abandon projects all over the country, not to mention the billions of dollars injected into the power generation project annually, yet there is barely electricity supply to last the citizenry for 24 hours.

Education is crippled and deteriorating by the day yet no one seems to notice anything wrong with it. Healthcare system is outdated, which has resulted indeed constant growth of human mortality rate. Is it that our leader is cursed by their covetousness for wealth that has made them indifferent to the well-being of the masses who voted them in? Or maybe I am the one hallucinating and probably out of my mind.

Life in Nigeria for an average is as a basis of survival of the fittest. Having three Square meals has now become a luxury many households cannot afford to achieve. Yet we pay bills, upon bills and constant hype in taxes which government heightens anytime they try to find a new standard to embellish their pockets. We are made to believe that the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF) component is feeding almost 10 million school pupils daily and empowering over 90, 000 local catering staff across the country. I strongly doubt where these statistics data is derived from.

Nigerians need to wake up to reality, that our so-called leaders do not have our best interest in heart, how come the labor demand for the new minimum wages for worker have yet to see the light of the day, despite deliberation on meetings with government over the months. Isn't this obvious that it is a case of every man for himself. 

No wonder there has been raising casualties to suicide, kidnapping, ritualism, arms bandit, boko haram killings recorded lately.  Someone needs to take the blame for this injustice. But will the dilemma ever be curbed and the country's economy work clockwise? 

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