The Spokesman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Professor Tukur Muhammad-Baba has described the N5billion in palliatives and grant to the state government as shambolic and unscientific.

Muhammad-Baba, a Professor of Sociology, who expressed his view in an interview, said there is no basis for giving the same amount to Lagos, Oyo, Kano and Bayelsa states, as their populations and statistics of eligible people differ.



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He said, “I am not happy about such blanket distribution of N5 billion to each state. In the first place, there is no basis for the distribution. I mean, if you are looking for poor people, are you allocating the same amount to Bayelsa, Lagos, Oyo, and Kano states, and you expect it to make an impact?

“This shows that we are doing things like what grammar people call ‘hunter’s pack’. You don’t plan, you don’t strategize, you just came out and made an announcement on that. There is no basis for sharing money to states on an equal basis.

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“We are talking of poor people and poor people is a question of proportion, we know there are over 140 million poor people in Nigeria. The number of people suffering from poverty in Lagos, Oyo, and Kano will not be the same with those living in poverty in Bayelsa, Taraba, or Jigawa. So, what is the basis? What impact is it going to make?

“You are accompanying it with 30,000 bags of rice. How many people is that going to reach? Take a state like Sokoto, for example. They have over seven million people by the latest National Population Commission estimate. So, how many people are 30,000 bags of rice going to feed?”


He noted that the government is not working on a definite plan saying, “The government is implementing a shambolic policy, you need to come to the aid of the poor people, there is no doubt about it, that is scientific, but you need to do it in such a way that your intervention will not be a drop in the ocean.”

https://dailytrust.com/n5bn-palliative-grant-to-states-shambolic-unscientific-acf-spokesman/

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Yeye people

This shows Tinubu's competence is hyped. All the attributes of his ability is a scam, a mega daylight scam

Tinubu like Buhari's regime will always listen to incompetent fellow.... I remember Tinubu always telling Buhari what to do and it's his turn, his brain suddenly fails him.

Infact, I'd trust Festus Keyamo handling the shari8of this palliative more than state governors.... He did excellently well with the payment of salaries of the 6months workers that was assigned to him to handle.

The best approach is bvn based crediting of accounts. NIN too can support it. A fixed amount to varying States sizes will encourage governors to resume swelling poverty profiles their states for funds.

Collecting loans to fund palliatives? What happened to creating conditions to help SMEs to thrive, making sure the refineries work optimally or building new ones, ensure power generation is improved and sustained? Why consumption but no production kind of economy?

The heroin/cocaine sniffer is just hellbent on finishing off this battered nation with his disastrous trial and error economic policies. This is the so called economic strategist overhyped by his mummified zombies everyday here.

Going forward, nobody is going to stand up and brandish trumped-up credentials in our faces, attributing god-like status to Tinubu, anymore.

All that nonsense about him being a master strategist and seasoned economist cum first class administrator, has been put to rest.

Man rode on the efforts of Lateef Jakande, pulled the wool over his enthusiasts and has ended up an abysmal failure in a role he claimed to have spent his entire life preparing for.

Ugly looking motherfvcker with a cocaine filled brain!

Ebola, the overhyped tribal Demi god

Where is the capacity they said Tinubu has?

Abi na yoruba standard capacity him get?

I totally agree with the Prof. It's very basic. Sharing it per LG would have been a better alternative but Tinubu still thinks he's doing election campaign where the state govs are seen as the henchmen capable of "delivering" their states. That model works for election but certainly not for governance.
Tinubu is simply clueless. He's employing the buhari template of sharing things and yet doing it in a more shambolic manner than the Buhari regime. Imagine borrowing states 5bn to buy rice and maize. How sensible is that never mind sustainable? Are Nigerians chickens? 180bn to purchase equipments for mechanised farming will make a huge difference for food availability and affordability than sharing it out as pittance. This is penny wise, pound foolish.
Tinubu is a huge disappointment.

slivertongue:
This shows Tinubu's competence is hyped. All the attributes of his ability is a scam, a mega daylight scam

It not just a Tinubu thing, it's a problem with people of his generation. They're the reason the country is in such shambles. They had things easier in the 60s and 70s, but when it was their turn, they simply messed everything up. They're just clueless on how to create a working system. Only good at hoarding stuffs and sharing peanuts.

Apart from Nigeria, Pallatives of this nature has never solved anything.
5billion is useless

I laugh in palliative make agbados and MANNABBQGR1LLS go collect thr own share...

Keep breeding like rats and think the world we’ll clean yiur mess. Animals