Why Five Months Of Tinubu-led Administration Is Devastating – Prof. Yususf

Former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Usman Yusuf, has said that the sufferings inflicted on citizens in the last five months by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government are quite worrisome, stressing that they are having serious devastation on the people regardless of their ethnicity, faiths or geographical origins.

This was as he said Nigeria’s economy is presently in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with high inflation, high debt burden and costs of serving it, dwindling foreign reserve, high cost of governance, insecurity, and persistent corruption among others.

He specifically said that there will never be security in any society without addressing the drivers of poverty, hunger, insecurity, corruption, bad governance, rise in the cost of living, illiteracy, drug abuse, youth unemployment, and proliferation of arms.

Prof Yusuf noted that unfortunately, President Tinubu’s administration and previous governments have been in denial about the presence of these drivers.

Yusuf particularly said that it must be understood that no military in the world can bomb away poverty, illiteracy, hunger, or grievances, adding that state governors bear huge responsibility for the current state of insecurity in the country because they control its drivers.

The Professor of Haematology oncology and bone marrow transplantation noted that State Governors have worsened poverty by emasculating Local Governments Councils by holding onto their funds and therefore called on the governments at the federal and state levels to as a matter of urgency, address the drivers of insecurity first if it desired to tackle the security challenges in the country.

Yusuf said that that these are very challenging times for Nigeria with a nose-diving economy, rising inflation, biting increases in the cost of living, insecurity all across the land, and a president whose legitimacy is in question.

He noted that Nigeria is not sharply divided along ethnic lines but, increasingly divided along socio-economic lines, saying; “The state and federal governments must as a matter of urgency, address these drivers of insecurity first.

“The governors should work collaboratively and consult all local stakeholders because all problems are local and the solutions must be found locally”.

…Sourced from The Sun