.....were converted into the value of six trailers of rice, it would still be insufficient to provide each individual with even a cup of rice.
By Semes Owotorufa
The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Ajero, emphasized that the Federal Government’s N5 billion palliative package per state would only equate to about N1500 per person when distributed among the more than 133 million Nigerians living in multi-dimensional poverty.
In an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today show on Friday, Ajero argued that allocating N185 billion wouldn’t have a significant impact when shared among 133 million Nigerians in multi-dimensional poverty, as per statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics.
He further pointed out that even if the funds were converted into the value of six trailers of rice, it would still be insufficient to provide each individual with even a cup of rice.
Additionally, he highlighted that since the first increase in petroleum pump prices, more Nigerians have fallen below the poverty line, reaching an alarming level of destitution.
“Let us assume that it is a palliative and not a loan, you will agree that it is difficult to feel the impact of such an amount at a time like this when the Bureau of Statistics has come up to say that over 133 million Nigerians are multi-dimensionally poor.
“You start to wonder about the impact of N185bn to 133 million people by their admittance, who are multi-dimensionally poor.
“In fact from the first increase in pump price of petrol and the last one, a lot of people moved from the borderline to a very high level of poverty. If you calculate and do an arithmetic on that, you will discover that it won’t amount to N1500 per person and you ask if that’s the impact that we want to achieve,” he said.
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