“Whether as entrepreneurs, low-income earners, or employers of labour, Nigerians as individuals or corporate entities are currently passing through difficult times.
Nigerians have weighed in following the reaction of the Presidency to an editorial published last week by Daily Trust on the state of hunger in the country.
Last Thursday, the presidency rebutted the editorial published by Daily Trust, accusing the newspaper of distorting facts and painting an exaggerated picture of hardship and hunger in Nigeria.
In the editorial titled, ‘Nigerians are hungry’, Daily Trust had chronicled the current economic situation of the country as many Nigerians struggle to make ends meet.
“Nigerians don’t have to be eating from the dustbin first, as Umaru Dikko claimed in the 1980s, before it would be admitted that there is hunger in the country.”
@waziri.saadibrahim said: “The ruling class, especially the current one, has no human face.
“Bad roads, high cost of petroleum products, bank charges, electricity tariffs, telecom and other taxes are inflicted on the citizens without any accountability.”
@abdul_waziri said: “In Nigeria, our ruling class has become so deceitful and shameless that they now want to control the feelings of the masses about their inactions towards the actual grievances of the people.
“Please someone should tell them that what the Daily Trust editorial posted about hunger in Nigeria is true and it’s everywhere in the country. In addition, the leaders should also take note that they are not invisible. The people are seeing them living in luxury houses, driving luxury cars and their children living large at the expense of those ruled.
“The earlier they take steps to address these issues and even others, the better for all. The fact about nature can never be changed, as no container can ever take more than it can contain, when it reaches a saturation point, it will spill.”
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