“Nigerians are angry with us” – Vice President Shettima
Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that Nigerians are really angry with the leaders. He made this comment on Saturday graduation ceremony of the Executive Intelligence Management Course 16 participants from different security agencies and nominees of state governments in Abuja.
Citizens of the country are groaning in pains as cost of living ceaselessly rises. Yet Nigerian leaders at all levels live extravagant and luxury life. They ride in bulletproof vehicles and have refused to offer the same sacrifice they beg Nigerians to.
The hardship under President Bola Tinubu is far more than that of the former president Muhammadu Buhari, hence making Nigerians desire the leadership of the ex military head of state.
Immediately Bola Tinubu removed subsidy on petroleum, Nigerian economy plunged deeper as naira falls daily at the parallel market. He argued that there is no other way to rebuild the country.
Shettima said, “All of us here belong to a tiny segment of the Nigerian population. And you don’t need a soothsayer to tell you that the poor are angry with us. Go to the slums and mingle with the poor. I am a native of Maiduguri (Borno State Capital). Anytime a rich man brought a new car to his house, it (the house) used to be a place of pilgrimage.
People (used to) go and see not out of anger, but out of admiration. But now, as we cruise around in our bulletproof cars, one will see contempt in the eyes of the poor. We have to improve the quality of governance. And what we have is a tiny window of not more than 10 to 20 years. Let’s improve the quality of governance.”
The VP added, “Let’s create jobs; let’s give hope to the populace. And once we create jobs, all this madness of insecurity will disappear. There won’t be Boko Haram and banditry if this is done, especially for us from the North. We can blame the bandits, but we in leadership positions owe it to posterity to address this.”
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