100 DAYS OF SHATTERED HOPE

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Tinubu yunwa! Tinubu yunwa! Tinubu yunwa! Chanted women and children in Hausa somewhere in Kaduna State. Translated in English it meant, Tinubu hunger. 

On May 29, 2023, during the president’s inauguration, Tinubu in his inaugural speech said “Subsidy is gone.” He wielded those words like a warrior would his sword during battle. 

His first day in office changed the course and life of every Nigerian living in Nigeria. What was meant to renew our hope, shattered our hopes in turn.

After the removal of the age-long scheme by the President, the cost of transport fares immediately went up by 50 percent mostly in urban cities which had ripple effects on the prices of goods and services. 

Most affected was the price of food, many households were forced to go hungry or greatly cut down on what they fed on which led us to see these women and children protest on the street.

Speaking in Hausa some of the women said: “We came out here because we do not have food to eat, I was lying in the house because I’m not feeling too well. I have five children, and they are orphans because their father is dead, his younger and older brothers too are dead and nobody to help us,” one of the women said. 

Another woman narrated how a mother lost her children to hunger. “They spent four days without food so their mother boiled water with salt because she was tired of hearing them cry, They drank the water and they all died,” she said.

“It’s the food we are looking for. God, please help us. We need food and we have children. Please help us, for God’s sake. 

“Since I was born, I’m 62 years old, I have never seen maize flour sold at N1,400, rice at N1,700, and spaghetti at N500, everybody is hungry. We are pleading with President Tinubu to help us, we are in hunger. We are sick but we do not have money to buy drugs. Our husbands and children are jobless, if they steal they are dealt with mercilessly, so please help us and give our children jobs because that is what they take care of us with.

“I am calling on government to look into our situation, People go to bed hungry, and some have not eaten for five days, some of them four days. No food both morning and night. Even if you have little money you can’t afford to buy the food, The rice that a poor man can afford is N1,500, and maize flour is N1,600 or N1,700, where do they want us to go to? I am 50 years old now, I have never seen this kind of suffering or this kind of hunger. 

“We are calling on the government to help us, we don’t want anything for free. They should make food available and make it affordable. At least, the rice should go down to N500 and maize flour should be N250/N300. We have children, orphans, and the like Please government should look into this.

“I have seven orphans with me, I swear, I beg just to feed them. We need food. I can’t recall when last we had swallow, I think three months ago. We just buy two spaghetti for N1,000 on credit and most times we cook it just with salt. All my life I have never seen this kind of suffering,” the different women narrated their ordeal.

These sad tales are just a fraction of the millions of struggling Nigerians and to cushion the hunger effects, the President had planned on implementing a ridiculous monthly cash handout of N8,000 monthly to 12 million households for six months. 

The President had written to the senate requesting approval to obtain an $800 million loan from the World Bank to facilitate the palliative under the National Safety Net Programme. 

The programme was heavily criticised by millions of Nigerians as they debated the value of N8,000 to households with the prices of food at an all-time high price and also the credibility of determining what household is vulnerable and needed the money most.

While Nigerians bear the repercussions of the subsidy removal and the high inflations, Tinubu and his men have gone quiet about the $800 million palliative plan.

Regardless of Tinubu’s achievements and actions so far, whatever policy the President makes at this point will make little or no sense to the common man unless it has a direct impact on the cost of food prices. 

With his cabinet now set, the President needs to hit the ground running fully as he promised during his campaign. He needs to make policies immediately that would have a direct impact on the prices of food because that’s all the common man cares about. 

It is common knowledge that a hungry man is an angry man, the President does not need hungry people on rampage. 

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