THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SHOULD DO THE NEEDFUL.
Those who are bent on defending President Bola Tunibu have repeatedly tried to establish a link between the failure of this administration and the misdeeds of the immediate past government of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Of recent and also following the footsteps of Sen. Adams Oshiomole is the whole Senate President, Godswill Akpabio who took to the floor of the Red Chamber to defend President Tunibu's show of incapability by arguing that the over N23tr Ways & Means Funds approved by the 9th Assembly galvanized the present economic malediction facing the country.
Ironically, Mr Akpabio was a significant contributor to that very decision while the present administration has spent double that amount within short span of time but with no any sign of improvement. It looks like at a higher level, top government officials have agreed to launch a propaganda to carry away the minds of Nigerians to less important issues.
The National Assembly has the mandate to investigate any expenditure incurred by the agencies of government to ensure financial probity but that should not make it to forget the real problem of hunger and misery people are currently facing.
According to many commentators, analysts and leaders of thought including the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar have said "Tinubu has refused to roll up his sleeves and do the work that he signed up for. Instead, he and his team are preoccupied with behaving like Napoleon and Squealer, characters in the satire book Animal Farm, who made it a state policy scapegoating Snowball (the opposition) for their own failures arising from their ill-advised policies.”
"His shifting the blame on the opposition and, even ridiculously, his predecessor" to the former VP "is needless and myopic" because "market forces don’t play politics. They respond to your actions and inactions."
Therefore, the option left to the government is to quickly address the market forces and turnaround the economy to cut down inflation, poverty, hunger, unemployment and all those negative socio-economic vices that today taste very bitter to the ordinary Nigerians.
All signs that nothing is moving in the right direction have been apparent on the wall and unfortunately the leadership of the Senate has even refused to listen to the voices of reasons from serious senators like Sen Suleiman Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila (ofr) representing Kano South Senatorial District.
The storm is gathering and it's not child play. Government must listen and do the needful because a hungry man is an angry person he can go to any length to get food on his table.
Credit: Usmanu Aliyu
