General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd), the former chief of state of the Nigerian military, has issued a warning that the country’s economic woes are out of control and has asked the government to take immediate action.
“The hardship in the land is getting out of control,” he said at his residence in Minna when he received the leadership of the Campaign for Democracy and Human Rights led by Abdullahi Mohammed Jabi who paid him a birthday visit, yesterday.
According to The Sun, General Abdulsalami continued, “Everyone is crying about this hardship and it seems to be getting out of control; people cannot afford three square meals; there are transport issues; fuel prices have increased; children’s school fees have increased; and everyone’s lack of money is making life difficult for everybody; Nigerians are suffering.”
“We will continue to encourage the government to introduce measures to soften the hardship” adding that ” the federal, states and local governments should see how they can cushion this economic hardship.”
But the former military chief revealed that he was a member of a group that had advised the national administration on how to get out of the current economic crisis in the country.
“I would like to inform you that in some of the proposals we have given to the government on another platform that giving Palliatives is not the answer to the high prices of food and other items in the country.
“There is a need for the government to flood and saturate the communities with food, let them (Government) buy food and sell it at lesser prices to the people so that people will try to buy some of these food items depending on their pockets/ income.
“We have passed these recommendations to the government, we hope they will implement it”, he added.
