Abuja, Nigeria – Renowned human rights activist and an international conflict resolution expert, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, has told Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to immediately declare a state of emergency as the excruciating economic pains upon the masses have become unbearable.
“The Nigerian masses are now being driven beyond the zone of tolerance as a result of the unprecedented hyperinflationary trends in the country,” he bemoaned.
“The current ugly situation is paralleled in the rise of violent crimes like kidnapping, constant hunger and squalor. What happens in a situation where the zone of tolerance of our people has reached a point of no return?
“We hereby as a matter of urgency call on President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency now in the economic sector in Nigeria, as a way of ameliorating the excruciating plight of our people”.
Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, who double as the Executive Director, Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre, made this assertion via a press release he gave to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday.
He regretted that never in the history of Nigeria have the people been subjected to the worse kind of economic misery and unimaginable suffering in the hands of a sitting civilian government at the centre.
Nowinta accused the ruling class which of engaging in total absence of feelings and ethical restraint in the mismanagement of economic issues and public resources.
Here is the details of the said press release:
“Today, under this government the Nigerian currency: The Naira, has been reduced beyond the worth of a tissue paper; even as Mozambican currency is now superior to the naira.”
“The people of Nigeria have become worthless guinea pigs in the hands of a government that has lost complete reality in the ocean of economic management cum fiscal policies; President Bola Tinubu has sadly become a danger to our collective existence.”
“Even, in the midst of the controversial removal of fuel subsidy, we continue to see perpetuation of same policies that have proven to be ineffective in eliminating poverty; we see daily cycles of mind boggling deprivations in the land.”
