Nigeria is facing Economic instability and inflation. The government has failed in many ways in terms of policy making to bring the Nation out from these hardships, corruption has eaten deep in all sectors of the Government. Citizens are complaining all over the Nation because of hardship being felt. However my point of this topic, is that despite the government having the major role to play Citizens of this nation also have their part to contribute by
1.Buy local and Encourage others to buy and support local products.
2.citizens should not use the high price of foreign products to affect locally manufactured products
3.products manufactured locally should be sold at affordable prices e.g palm oil, Garri, local rice, fish, onions, tomatoes, corn cassava wheat etc.
4. Support others in learning what will be beneficial to and their family
What are your input on roles of citizens in this Economical situation
I am a strong proponent of fair competition so I am not moved by some of the points you mentioned. If I enter market to buy things, I will go for the best quality at reasonable prices. I will not take because I want to patronize locals and buy substandard items at high prices. The past government close borders and forced all of us to buy local rice, at the end what happened, the local rice price rose far above the foreign rice even when the quality of some of those local very bad and substandard. What then is the result of such policy? If the local products are competitive in quality, I am sure people will naturally go for them. Check our fashion and music industry and see how well they are doing because the quality is great. Now many people go with native wears to occasions and functions and even in official meetings. Even the current president and top government officials are most on local attires unlike before they were always on tie.