I’ve always spoken in favor of a social welfare system for the Nigerian people. However, some people have persisted in countering it for a number of reasons.
Some will say Nigeria doesn’t have a good data base That reason has been interesting to me simply because Nigeria does have at least four ways in which a willing administration could get data if it really wanted to.
The first is the registration of deaths and births. The second is the bureau of census. The third is the national identification program. The fourth is the passport issuance office. There are others like the electoral commission and the bank verification number.
But for reasons best known to government, the issue of no data still persists.
That apart, as much as I applaud the Lagos state government for trying to feed its populace at these trying times, I tend to disagree with the manner of distribution of relief materials.
Someone reported a lorry of Lagos state relief materials surfacing in Abeokuta, Ogun state. Some residents of Lagos are not happy with the manner of distribution either.
Now, the cookies have come home to crumble. People are hungry and some of them have resorted to a savage way of self preservation.
Stealing!
I learn some have been carting away food items from the distribution centres. Some others have been attacking homes and stores to steal whatever they could find.
While it may be fashionable for the developed world to order its citizens to stay home, people in the developing countries may find it hard to do so.
People will always go out to seek their daily bread except in cases where government shows it cares!
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