Nigerians react to Video of the elderly people struggling to catch palliatives

A video has emerged of the elderly struggling to catch foodstuffs been thrown at them in Lagos state.

The video which was shared on Twitter on Saturday, August 19, showed how a truck full of rice was been distributed to the elderly people who had gathered in their numbers.

This comes following the approval of N5 billion grant to be given to each of the 36 states of the federation for the procurement of grains as well as five trucks of rice to each state as palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal…………………………CONTINUE READING

The N5 billion and trucks of rice and grains are part of measures to bring temporary solutions to the high cost of living caused by the subsidy removal, as government continued to work with more enduring programmes.

However, in a video making rounds, many have raised concerns over the manner in which citizens, especially the aged are struggling to get a parcel.

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Below are some reactions;

@DunTos16:Institutionalised Poverty

@greggro123: This breaks my heart!
It is not fair to treat people like this…

@HarrisonAkadidi: Sad

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They are like this because of a system that made education hard earned. They are like this because the Government crumbled every social structure and forgot about aged citizens.

They are like this because of the Government.

@supernova6: Do people realize that with this subsidy removal, more Nigerians will fall into poverty and stay there for a very long time?
Govt will make more money and give the people peanut.

@Classic84073745: Is this how Tinubu want to eliminate poverty rate in Nigeria?

@Happy2dishit: I can’t believe Nigerians allowed this political party to reduce them down to beggars.

@firstladyship: This is not a horror movie. THIS IS NIGERIA, where life is short & brutish. Where dreams are killed. This is not the Nigeria of our dream. HOW DID WE GET HERE?

@Mykoladoo: That is what Nigerians has been reduced to .

Stomach infrastructures taken to National level, a global embarrassment 2023.

@OhitaBee: This is such a pathetic and sad situation.

@LaceVine: What actually happened to delivering these palliatives to their door steps?

@davey_aka: It’s disheartening that we are here now, we can change the world by changing ourselves

@OkelighoKhalifa: And the yeye Government people knows how to use this, they want Nigerians to remain like this so they can control the masses with stomach infrastructure…………………………CONTINUE READING