From Isaac Ojo Awka
Goverment at all levels have been tasked to formulate favorable economic policies that could reverse the endemic poverty, hunger and economic hardship in the country.
This call was made by the President of Nigerian Union of Local Goverment Employees (NULGE) Anambra State chapter, Comrade Nicholas Aromeh.
Comrade Aromeh noted that greater percentage of Nigerians are wallowing in penury due to the unfriendly policies of the federal government.
He said as a matter of fact that most policies of the federal government at the moment are inimical to the well beings of greater percentage of Nigerians.
The NULGE boss wondered how a country blessed with abundant human and natural resources would be yearning for food and other basic necessities of life.
He stressed the need for the government and indeed Nigerians to look inwards and go back to agriculture, which according to him was the main source of the nation’s economy before the oil boom in the early seventies.
Comrade Aromeh added that downward review of fuel pump price and food prices as well as electricity tariff would help revitalize the suffering Nigerians who were struggling to eke out their daily bread in the prevailling economic hardship.
The NULGE boss,who maintained that Nigerian civil servants are not finding things easy as a result of high cost of living, pleaded with President Ahmed Bola Tinubu and state Governors to borrow a leaf from the Anambra State Governor, Prof Charles Soludo, who he said has declared free education in all public schools in the state.
Comrade Aromeh lamented that no system is working in present day Nigeria due to increasing rate of crimes and corruption, especially among the leaders.
