08/07/2023
The excessive rise in the prices of food, clothing and shelter calls for urgent government attention and a shift in government's priority.
The three above are the basic needs of life. No individual, group or country survive without them.
The rise in the prices of the above beyond the capacity of average members of the society is the biggest existential threat to Nigeria and her government.
What is the government's plan in curbing this, the answer is theoretically many and practically zero.
Whenever I visit CBN site and see the current inflation rate and directly compare it with what is on ground, I lose hope in this country, because its obvious that the only thing growing here is lies.
Government has promoted more lies, deceit and tribalism than they have promoted anything that will add value to this country.
If you present the government's activities in a tabular form, you will discover that for every one good thing they talk about (which they hardly keep) they have talked about hundreds of bad things, which they respond to like it's their fate.
Can't the government look into how the prices of building materials is growing above the reach of the common man? Can't they consider that majority of the sickness they cure in few hospitals around here are caused by hunger? Can't they see that even though majority of the people don't have any business visiting hospitals when they are sick because they can't afford it, yet the few who go to hospitals have issues related to nutritional challenges? Are they not seeing that hunger is fueling the rise of crime?
Can't they do something about the rise in the number of homeless people? Is it not obvious that house rent is now growing like grass, and the benefit of few individuals is consuming the interest of the entire society.
How I wish we have a government; how I wish we have a country! All these may not be fully solved, but they will be sincerely confronted.