Instead of fighting hunger, we are buying guns – Prof Usman Yusuf slams APC amid hardship

Former Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Professor Usman Yusuf, has slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) for its poor governance which has sent the country into economic hardship and hunger.

Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, Prof Yusuf stated that Nigeria has resulted in buying guns instead of fighting hunger and poverty.

Prof who was a fierce critic of the immediate past administration, lamented the amount of youths that dropped out of school during former President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure under the APC platform.

According Prof Yusuf, prior to the time the APC assumed power in 2015, Nigerians were buying rice for N7,500, but recently, a year after President Bola Tinubu assumed power, a bag of rice is being sold at N70,000.

Mr Yusuf bemoaned the N30,000 minimum wage being paid to civil servants who go to the war front and constables at road blocks.

In his submission, N50,000 salary for a soldier is wrong as the amount cannot afford to buy a bag of rice in the present day.

He urged the federal government to provide food for the citizens immediately.

He said;

“Instead of fighting hunger and poverty, we are buying guns and Tukano jets. No society, none with this much inequity and hunger never have peace.

20 million out of school, 133 million that is 65% of Nigerians during the time of Buhari a year ago, a multi-dimensional poverty. Drugs, guns are coming from across the border. You’re buying more guns instead of feeding people, instead of educating your children, they are getting it wrong.

When this party (APC) came in 2015, a bag of rice, 50 kilos, was N7,500; yesterday it was N70,000. How much does a worker earn? What is the minimum wage? It is N30,000. How much is a soldier at the warfront earning? N50,000.

The constable at the roadblock? N50,000. They cannot even buy rice but they have guns. You have a security man with guns and you’re not feeding him. You are in there inside your house and you and your family are eating chicken, you think you will be safe?

There is hunger in the land and the government, federal and state must provide food immediately. All these talks they are doing in Abuja will get us nowhere but trouble,” Prof Yusuf said.

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