Saturday, May 14, 2016

Can this government be trusted?

It seems the ruling party was desperate for power without any concrete economic agenda but only exciting promises. They got power and was at a loss as to what to do with it.

They now embrace policies for which they vilified and condemned the past administration. 

While tough choices have to made at times for future benefits, knowing that the leaders are trustworthy and actually understand what they are doing will help the people to accommodate and adjust to these changes.

Now fuel is sold for N145 per litre. My question is what plan has this government put in place to cushion the effect of the steep increase especially in the light of the suffering Nigerians are already going through?

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria
It is certain that massive fraud was committed under the past administration. While the scale of fraud committed is astonishing, condemnable and shameful; at times, one cannot but think that the present administration is exaggerating the scale and making a show out of it to earn political capital. This is because of the over-concentration on this matter to the obvious neglect of other serious national issues. 

The first few months were spent chasing looters - real and imaginary - while Nigerians were suffering and the economy nose-diving. Tainted ministers and politicians with expired integrity