Hunger, depression and crime has taken over Nigeria', Says High Chief Ameh

The rich are not cutting back on unnecessary Government spending, flying private jets globetrotting at the expense of the poor and living luxurious lifestyle while they tell the poor to tighten their belts.

What the Federal government has done is akin to robbing Peter to pay Paul. Removing the only rare benefit the poor gets from the rich and transferring same to the rich.

Ever since the removal, transportation has quadrupled, and the cost of goods and services have all also quadrupled.

Our collective economic condition of gnashing our teeth and literally passing through the valley of shadow of death today is a reflection of the consequences of unplanned and unstructured removal of fuel subsidy.

Our standard of living has significantly gone southwards, hunger and starvation is not only staring us in our faces, but gnawing our bowels. Most parents cannot send their wards to school anymore. Criminality is on a geometric increase. There are more reports of missing pots of soup than ever before in recent history of our country.

*The unplanned, unprepared and unstructured removal* of subsidy is the root cause of all this harsh economic realities and it brought crushing economic misery to the majority of Nigerians.

Peter Ameh
Former National Chairman IPAC