…… To open farms and food bank to help Nigerians
A group Nigerian Citizens and Welfare Project ( GCIO-NCWP) has urged the government to use the National Identification Number, NIN to sell its discounted rice to Nigerians.
The group in a statement noted that the idea of NIN is to ensure that the N40,000 discounted rice initiative gets to more people rather than focusing on Civil servants or using politicians to get the rice to the populace.
The statement which was signed by Jeremiah Orede,
Publicity Secretary of the group stressed that if the federal government had implemented it’s suggestion in the past of distributing Palliatives using NIN and opening government farms in every local government as well as partnering with National Union of Road Transport Owners and Workers to subsidize transportation for citizens until the CNG buses are ready, the hyper inflation we are experiencing in Nigeria today would have been averted to an extent.
The statement quoted Director General of the Group, Esanerovo Agbodo to have said: “We spent our resources to organize a Palliatives and Social Security Summit in Abuja on November 1st 2023 to bring stakeholders together Including serving Ministers in Presidential Tinubu’s cabinet to advise government on how to manage the fall out of the fuel subsidy removal but our suggestions are yet to be inculcated in government’s strategy to combat the fall out of the tough decision. If our suggestions were implemented a bit, it would have stemmed the rise of transport fares and also reduce the prices of food stuffs because when transporting fares for food stuffs is reduced and the demand for rice in the open market comes down,the prices of other food stuffs will also go down.
“Yes,the federal government has many arms advising it but we still think they should also look to the advice of concerned citizens outside the government and at least inculcate some relevant items in their strategies”.
“Now,we are stating again that unless the NIN is used randomly to sell the bags of rice to reach most Nigerians whether poor or rich in order to carry every Nigerian along, some people will still hijack the process and citizens will continue to feel discriminated against,and this will stir up more negative emotions against the government’s economic policies.
We want to stop here and we also want to state that we will continue to make our suggestions open to the government because what we need is a better Nigeria for all.
“GCIO-NCWP also plans to host an Investment Dialogue to fathom ways to attract both local and foreign investments to Nigeria to boost the value of Naira and create more jobs before the end of the year.”
