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AS I WRITE, PUBLIC SCHOOLS AT ALL LEVELS ARE SHUT.

ENTRANCES TO AIRPORTS ARE SHUT.

COURTS ARE CLOSED.

NATIONAL GRID IS SHUTDOWN.

FUEL STATIONS ARE THREATENING TO CLOSE.

FREE RISE OF FOODSTUFFS PER SECONDS.

HUNGER AND REDUCED QUALITY OF LIFE ARE ESCALATING GEOMETRICALLY. 

NOTHING IS WORKING, NOT EVEN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, MULTI NATIONALS THAT SEEM TO BE IN THEIR OWN BUBBLE, BE THEM SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, OFFICES, INDUSTRIES OR MEDIA FIRMS, ETC.

AS NIGERIA GRINDS TO A HALT AND SYSTEMS SHUT DOWN I HUMBLY GIVE MY TAKE ON THE WAY FORWARD AND NOT LINGER ON THE OBVIOUS PROBLEMS.

•Salary increase to N400,000 minimum would cause inflation, devalue the naira further and destroy the private sector who can't match up especially the SMEs. 

•So instead of increase in salary we can 

- put subsidy in areas that are key and can be checked to prevent saboteurs like food, agriculture, petrol, health, education, electricity and transportation,

- have price control of everything, 

- reduce cost of all necessities, 

- abolish use of foreign currencies, 

- allow imports with quality control and border inspection, 

- prioritise farmers and farming, 

- abolish nomadic grazing, 

- abolish chemical farming and use mechanized farming,

•Labour won't be asking for salary increase if cost of living didn't increase. If an example of salary of N2000 in yesteryear could build a house and buy a car would those people have asked for N20,000?

•A man can cook and feed his community but if that community cooks and feeds just that man he'll die of overfeeding.

•So it's the place of the few people in government to cater for the needs of the masses and not the other way round.

•The shepherds-cum-hirelings should not feed on the sheep, but must feed the sheep and care for them.

•Those in political leadership especially have a greater role than the followers being that they control all the resources, dictate policies and direct what the followers would do by use of force, law and their offices.

•If we all collectively love Nigeria like that very expensive car rolling down the sloppy road, we'd do all in our power to rescue it from crashing with something or worse, someone. Let's not use an analogy of a child - imagine seeing your only child taking the path of self destruction and infact total destruction of what you have and are, would be sit back and fold your hands so you'd act and act fast in love and responsibility?

•The common wealth we have is there in abundance and while we are being distracted with tales of corruption and looting by those in whose custody these money lie, there are the more fundamental problems of remuneration, fiscal policies, servicing of office holders, paying of ex-office holders, running cost of political offices, etc which are disguised to be backed up law and thus legal spendings.

•The other issue of leakage in revenue, bunkering and mining by international illegals aided by government and locals, etc also contribute to reduced money that could have been available for us to use as a nation to settle the many problems. How can we have gold, oil, bitumen and very rare and special minerals in Sambisa, Zamfara, Plateau, Ondo and some troubled areas and we are still borrowing as a nation? These crimes make the nation poor and lack money to run social aid programmes not the demeaning palliative they pander around as social intervention.

•There's enough for our need not for our greed.

•Nigeria has money.

Tina Clark PSLC, BL, PH.D.

For: Tina Love Foundation 

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