A love letter to Mallam Nasir el-Rufa’i (I) Governor Nasir El-Rufai
Fri May 07 2021
I had made up my mind to write to you openly before I saw the viral video by Dr Shadi Sabeh in which he appealed to you passionately to temper your actions with a “human face” with regard to the proposed sacking of 20,000 staff of the Kaduna State Government.
I do not quite agree with Dr Sabeh that people should be kept in service just to pay them as a social service. Nigeria cannot afford that for now. Our economy is not a 10th as developed as the US economy was in the 1930s when it went through the Great Depression. However, Dr Sabeh is right to the extent that Keynesianism is back world over and a government must necessarily think about the impact of its policies on the people it serves.