Professor Usman Yusuf, former Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), on Saturday, said he is surprised the South Eastern part of the country has remained quiet amid the worsening economic hardship facing the country.
This is even as he urged the President to buy food, flood the market and feed the people before things get too late.
Yusuf made this known on Saturday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show programme.
It is reported that there have been agitations against the increasing hunger in some parts of the country, most of them from the south west and northern part of the country.
However, Yusuf found it surprising that the South East has remained calm.
He said: “I honestly don’t know why the South East is quiet, uncharacteristically quiet. But the President needs to find out. The North is where I know I live; even my heritage is. The silence in the North is more lethal than anywhere else in the country. And the President needs to listen to that.
“The silence in the North, from the people of the North in spite of the suffering people are going through, is more lethal than people coming out.
“We are going into the month of Ramadan, people are going to pray. We ask the President to buy food, flood the market and feed the people before things get too late.
“The whole country is suffering. There’s hunger in the land. We hope you listen. Don’t listen to your advisers. Bring a whole lot of money for food, don’t wait for the governors.”
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Once beaten, twice shy. The South East has learnt her lessons. All these while, she had been at the fore front of agitations but rather than listen to the agitations as objective leaders would, the Nigerian leadership would send the soldiers after their youths and accuse them of being UPON and ESN sponsored. Nobody comes up to talk on their behalf therefore, it would be the highest foolishness for anybody from the South East to make any move. Let all of us suffer it, till the other regions feel what we have felt all these days. We have lost our youths for Nigerian course, so also have we lost our properties, wealth and years of sufferings in other parts of Nigeria simply because we are from the South East and as such, the sacrificial lamb of the nation.
ReplyDelete... accuse them of being IPOB or ESN sponsored...
ReplyDeleteNo other group in Nigeria understands Nigeria more than the Igbo found struggling in every spot of the country. Now there is an outrageous hardship of a war type level, the Igno must be smart to recall the rogue elections that deprived them of the people they elected to lead and change the hostility in the current old and incompetent Tinubu mega corruption and darkness of the nation.
DeleteA bag of cement is 12k presently. The fact that cement is unaffordable marks the end of physical structures from being a source of distribution of jobs and wealth. See how it goes, if builders stop, transportation will stop and all w9rkers in the construction field will go home without job, what would expect to happen? Plumbers be be out of work, electricians will go hungry. Masons and Carpenter s are frustrated. In deed, the economy is dead.