In a bid to give oxygen to the nation-building project of Nigeria, the Chairman, Less Privileged Union of Nigeria, Hon. Alhaji Abdulkareem Oscar Maiyau has stated clearly the need for an intentional welfare package for unemployed citizens by the Federal Government.
Hon. Abdulkareem Maiyau also known as Alhaji Oscardecried a situation where the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, speaks and demands for the rights of the workers whereas the un employed cititizens are left with no representation to demand for their welfare as partners in the Nigerian project.
Whilst speaking with our reporter, Alhaji Oscar called on the FG to evolve well thought-out welfare policies to implement which should bring lasting solutions to sufferings of the un employed masses in Nigeria.
Speaking on the fuel subsidy removal and its management, the youth leader stated that the Tinubu Presidency had hit the ground running with the fuel subsidy removal, a decision he said, was was ripe and long overdue for implementation, save for the lack of timely implementation of well thought out measures to cushion the impact of the removal on the citizenry.
Interestingly, the Chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Keana LG Area in Nassarawa state,2014, did not mince words in applauding the provision of palliatives by the Federal Government to cushion the effects of the subsidy removal on the populace.
However, he reiterated that the FG should not have assigned palliatives distribution to State governments. He stressed that the Governors are sharing the palliatives politically save for the Governor of Borno state, Prof. Zulum.
‘’ When President Tinubu earmarked N8,000 (eight thousand naira) to be distributed to vulnerable Nigerians, just like the Trader, Farmer Money was distributed to Nigerians by the Buhari Presidency with former Vice President Yemi-Osibanjo distributing N10,000 (ten thousand naira),school feeding program and more handled by the FG, there was much impact. I must commend Governor Zulum of Borno state for adding N8 Billion from the state treasury to the palliatives provided by the FG to the State for distribution.
He decries a political high –jack of the Tinubu Palliatives by the Governors in collaboration with the Nigerian legislators, a situation he called worrisome as he expected the Nigerian masses to resist and protest against as unacceptable.
‘’ The Governors lobbied the National Assembly to be assigned the responsibility of distributing the palliatives, which they are sharing politically, but this should not be so ,since elections are over and campaigns are different from administration of state’’.
Recounting the diplomatic ties of Nigeria at 63, he frowned at the tilt to the west by Nigeria with a case in point as to the attendance of President Tinubu to the United Nations General Assembly and his refusal to be in attendance at BRICS in Russia.
Hon. Abdulkareem Oscar Maiyau called on President Tnubu to eschew the possibility of military intervention by ECOWAS in the politics of Niger as ECOWAS Chair, stressing that francophone countries have increasingly come under exploitation by France.
