The Civil Society Organisation on Community Advancement and Humanitarian Empowerment Initiative (CSCHEI) has said in order for President Bola Tinubu to appease citizens protesting he must as a matter of urgency declare emergency on Basic Health and Agricultural sectors.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
The group, in a statement by its Director General, Kunle Yusuff on Friday in Abuja said the present circumstances in Nigeria demands that Federal Government accelerate the processes of reforms that will hasten development for Nigerians to quickly begin to enjoy the diligence of democracy.
He wants the Federal Government to consider reforms in the housing and retirement policies, including power and energy reforms.
According to Yusuff, “once food is affordable for Nigerians to feed their families and they have access to basic health care, the social apathy will decline drastically.
“We would like the President to review housing and retirement policies. When you are sure that at your retirement age, you can have an affordable house to accommodate your family and functional pension scheme is in place, certainly this will further drag financial corruption to barest minimum.
“Government should provide electricity and reaffirm hope for self-employed Nigerians. Electricity, Fuel, and Diesel are the immediate commodities that bind Nigerian masses together. Once there is energy sufficiency at reasonable rates for artisans to deploy their skills into productive activities, there will be drastic reduction in pressure on social faultiness.
“The communications desk and community engagements unit in Mr President’s office should upscale performance on their duties and adopt work synergy among MDAs, and the appointees, to avoid administrative arrogance and conflict that may hinder the acceleration of eight point Agenda of this administration,” the CSCHEI Boss said.
Meanwhile, CSCHEI has appealed to Nigerians to embrace “Process Reforms not Commotion Protest.”
He said presently, Nigeria’s economic stability is not resilient to withstand national strikes or prolog public protest.
“It’s on this note that CSCHEI appeal to leadership of CSOs, CBOs, NGOs, Youths, Students and all other critical stakeholders to embrace negotiations and give the government more chance for most of their intervention to mature.
“It is imperative that government escalate actions with appropriate quantum of intervention in order to diffuse the social faultiness to avoid aggravating the masses into further agitation which always has a propensity to lead to social anarchy.
“We also want to use this opportunity to appeal to the State Governors and Local Government Council Authorities to always give accurate information for the masses to know the interventions coming from Federal Government. At this point in time appropriate dissemination of information is necessary,” Yusuff stated.