Ahmed Abas.
A human right activist and public affairs commentator, Ahmed Adoke has raised the alarm over the high cost of food items across the country, and called on government to urgently address the situation before things get out of hand and snawball into full scale insecurity.
A report, published by Verity News, said the activist raised this alarm during the week in Okene, Kogi State in a press release titled “Save the soul of Nigerians.”
Ahmed Adoke who expressed serious concern/worry over the astronomic rise in prices of food stuff across the country expressed surprise that government was not doing anything about it as expected and it’s seeming easier said than policy of the present government.
The human right activist who said that it was almost becoming impossible for the Nigerian masses to put meals on their table warned that government must not treat the issue of hunger lightly, adding that our leaders must note that a hungry man is an angry man.
Speaking further on the nonchalant attitude of leaders to the current excruciating hardship across the country, Adoke urged those in government to consider the pitiable condition of poor Nigerian masses who go to the same market with the rich and those in high positions.
While lamenting that in the past government has a functional price control committee or agencies that ensured that producers didn’t arbitrarily hike the prices of items or commodities, he wondered why such agencies are no longer functional.
The human right activist also noted that since the official removal of fuel subsidy by the present administration, prices of items jumped up at over 200% increase. He said the so-called palliatives by government neither reached the masses nor cushioned the biting effects of subsidy removal.
He then called on the present administration in the country to review its economic policies to ameliorate the hardship being experienced by Nigerian masses adding that a stich in time save nine.
