Hitting the Street is Inevitable
Everywhere you go to from Lagos to Kano to Port-Harcourt etc. people are saying the same thing in Nigeria they are crying about the high cost of goods and services in the country. As at January rice was sold for NGN 45,000 and now It will surprise you to know that a 50kg bag of rice is NGN 68,000. A bag of Sugar was NGN 62,000 and now it NGN 75,000 the same thing for Fuel, Tomatoes, Cement etc. all increment was within a space of one month.
My First question is what would be the prices of these commodities in December?
Is the president trying to pass a message to the people. We are very good at adjusting and praying to God that already have heard us and bless our lands. The government don't seem to care. Just recently custom duty was increased from NGN 1300 a dollar to NGN 1400 to a dollar. The custom duty will drive increase in goods imported and it is the consumer that bears the cost.
When are we going to reach our Limit as Nigerians?
Savings worth nothing again especially when you convert it to dollar. Minimum wage cannot buy a bag of rice. Is it not time to hit the street and demand for better leadership and governance. We have three more years to go
With the prices of commodities now surging and becoming tough for most middle class lately, I wonder how the poor masses would survive this, we didn't see this coming, everyone thought this country would get better after the previous government and removal of subsidy, but if you observe closely you'll see that this current government have no plans for it's citizens and is gradually leading our great nation blessed with enough natural resources to becoming a failed nation.
I just pray we don't get to a stage where the insecurity would surge to it's peak and citizens would start stealing and committing dubious acts for survival, cause with the rate at with the dollar keeps gaining to our local currency I fear we might get to that point, if not their already cause price of commodities would keep going high and too costly for the poor and middle class to afford. And by then they'll start stealing from the rich for survival, sometimes I ask myself where are we going from here, I'm not a negative thinker but all those are bound to happen if things keeps getting worst.
If you watch closely and observe the news very well you see the citizens have started protestng in various regions of the country especially in the northern part of the nations and with the way it's going, many citizens are tired of living in poverty and starvation, price of goods is not friendly, transportation is nothing to talk about cause of the high cost of petrol and they can't even afford tuition fees for their children, with time this protests could even get worst than the End Sars protest.
But the question is would these government listen to it's citizens, what are their plans and strategy to reduce the wide spread poverty rate and keep our economy stable again? Well let's see how it goes. Nigeria is a great Nation with bad government but we hope for better days.