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 Healthcare system is outdated,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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