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Published 17 February 2021
From the moral, political, social and economic perspectives, an objective and critical analysis of the ever-worsening insecurity situation in the country points to the failing factor on the part of the current leadership, to live up to its constitutional mandate and public expectation to protect the lives of the citizens.
In fact, the very idea of granting amnesty to supposedly ‘repentant’ criminal elements, who are nothing other than rampaging terrorists, bandits and kidnappers, by embracing them with free feeding, clothing, accommodation, all from the public purse is reprehensible, obnoxious, immoral, highly unpatriotic and totally condemnable! On a curious note, some of these beneficiaries are offered western education on a silver platter; the same policy they have been fighting against, going by the interpretation of “Boko Haram”. How hypocritical can some of us get in this country?
– Winthrop Aldrich
Coming at a perilous period of a second wave of the debilitating COVID-19 pandemic and a second economic recession in five years, the recent increase in electricity tariff by 50 per cent by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)says much about the inhuman and anti-people policies of the current administration!“Haba, have Nigerians not suffered enough?” a concerned citizen ventilated his anger, as soon the increase in the electricity tariff became a news item.
Of course, we have. If we are not battling against the increase in Value Added Tax (VAT), it is that of the incessant increase in the pump price of petrol in a so called oil-producing country. One does not need rocket science to understand the domino effects such aberrant increases have on the cost of living here in Nigeria. The prices of foodstuffs have skyrocketed. So it has affected that of transportation, healthcare delivery, house rents, communication, even as Nigerians battle again
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