By BASHIR ADEFAKA
“Some seven months down the lane, it doesn’t seem that the sufferings will abate. And the present power mongers are indifferent. This is not only an act of callousness but a betrayal of the Nigerian people. It is a moral indignation and a breach of the social contract.”
Nigeria’s Professir of Law, Yusuf Dankofa, believes President Bola Ahmed Tinubu does not need the kind of number of people he airlifted to attend a climate change event in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) currently.
This is even as others are questioning what he tried to prove involving himself in the type of resources wastage at this time in the life of country people he claims to save money to benefit with fuel subsidy removal, but who have continued to languish in abject poverty as a result.
Fuel subsidy was the only benefit Nigerians had enjoyed from government, but its removal by Tinubu has created equality of poverty among the rich and the poor in Africa’s largest economy, since his first hour in office following his inauguration speech declaration of May 29, 2023.
According Professor Dankofa, “That the President ferried about one thousand four hundred hangers-on to far away Dubai for climate change conference is bewildering,.”
The professor, who posted his reaction via his verifiable Facebookpageon Monday, viewed that, “In times like this, government needs to stop wastage.”
He said, “It is improper to carry large contingents for what seems like an excursion and goodies for cronies when other serious countries are belt tightening
“When you are telling the already economically suffocated masses to persevere,all you do is to waste government resources on inanities
“Carrying such a bloated contingent to a conference where Nigeria is an onlooker does not show sympathy to the sufferings and misfortunes of Nigerians
“I say misfortunes because the multi dimensional poverty that Nigerians are facing is induced on them by their governments
“Nigeria government officials do not have conscience neither are they being guided by empathy
“This is a country where most people live under less than $1 a day.Where people live under squalid and unpleasant conditions as a result of neglect
“According to bookmakers,this trip alone will gulp close to N900M.
“This is contemptible and despicable when viewed within the background of the tremendous sufferings the average Nigerian is subjected to
“Life has already become brutish and hellish due to the withdrawal of petrol subsidy.
“Some seven months down the lane, it doesn’t seems that the sufferings will abate.
“And the present power mongers are indifferent.
“This is not only an act of callousness but a betrayal of the Nigerian people.
“It is a moral indignation and a breach of the social contract.
“While your people are crying over policies that are killing them,you are in front of global cameras with people who don’t know jack about climate change
“This government has a low standing when it comes to understanding the plight of its oppressed people
“It’s actions ever since it assumed duty has embarrassed even its supporters
“No government can be applauded over this impervious attitude towards its people,” he said.
