Fix Nigerian Refinery: instead of Palliating us with N8k

Fix Nigerian Refinery: instead of Palliating us with N8k.

The news of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu plan to borrow a loan from World Bank to give 12 million Nigerians N8k monthly for a few months as palliative, no doubt, is a Laughable policy.
I would have thought that Mr President had learnt from his predecessor Who spent more than 500millions distributing N5k in the past ro many millions of Nigeria that till date we do not have their data or information of how many Nigerians benefited from such a failed exercise
To have such coming from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not only alarming but disappointing, it is a policy that never worked in the past l.

Your Excellency, how have you arrived at your 12 million number selection? Nigeria is divided into the North and South. Are we having 6 million from the North and 6 million from the South? Or since we have 6 geopolitical zones in Nigeria in the spirit of federal character ,are you deriving your 12 million from 2 million each zone? What criteria and modus operandi are you going to use to pick the 12 million? Obviously, it’s a policy that’s going to fail because such has failed before. It will end up being a handout to your fellow party members..
In all seriousness, sir, N8k will only make the life of Nigerians worse, not better . Cost of food is skyrocketed times 3 already in our Nation, N8k can not feed a family of 3 in a day so how do we arrive at such policy and see it as a policy to help poor Nigerians
With all seriousness, Mr President, Nigerians can want for another few months if tou can put this N500-billion to repair our refinery even if it’s only one within 6 months the resultant effect of this is that once we have refinery working it will increase our oil production and export, thereby increase our earnings and reduced price of fuel back home. It will help our currency gain more power in the world market, and fuel at home will sell for half the price or even less that we have it today.
This would be my humble advice to you Mr President than a political palliative that will only benefit your acronyms but not the larger Nigerian people who are suffering from abject poverty all across the country..
Some of us want your government to succeed .
Your palliative program to farmers, if properly followed thru, is a laudable plan. The more help the farmers can get and more people encourage into farming will help our economy less dependent on import.
It is so sad that this N500biilion been sorted by Mr President N70b is going to National assembly which means salary and palliative increase for the National assembly whilst ordinary workers in Nigeria are not included in all your palliative.
Nigerians should ask Mr President if this is palliative indeed or just a hand out to lawmakers and politicians and members of APC.
There’s no sincerity in this appropriation and it’s implementation it’s as woeful as the policy itself
Nigeria is sitting on a gun powder and the gun powder may burst some day if things continue to degenerate ans those in govt are insensitive to the needs of ordinary Nigerians.
Many more Nigerians should speak out and we should all condemn this acts
Nigerian need long sort solutions not short cut that we keep looking for every day.
May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Signed:
Faduri Oluwadare Joseph Former Presidential Aspirant LP
Leader
Rescue Movement for New Nigeria