Former Labour Party member, Kenneth Okonkwo, has upbraided President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s media chat, noting that life is now worth only N5,000 under his administration.
The frontline Nollywood artist who expressed worries that the president’s administration started on a wrong note since its inauguration 19 months ago,
stated this while referring to the stampede that claimed the lives of over 67 Nigerians in Oyo, Abuja and Anambra recently in a stampede while jostling for Xmas palliatives.
Okonkwo who spoke on Channel’s Television Sunrise Daily, said that the president did not say what he expected him to say during his media chat.
“We have to stop all these nonsensical kudos given to failure. For nineteen months, you have not been able to tell Nigerians what you have been doing, and you have started doing wrong things from the day you were sworn in,” he stated.
Okonkwo noted that democracy was not just about addressing Nigerians, but about where the people should interrogate you and ask you salient questions, referencing the constitution which states, ‘The participation of the people in the government shall be ensured,’ he said.
“About the stampede, the president shifted all the blame to the organisers—people who wanted to help people who are hungry,” he said.
Okonkwo said the people who lost their lives during the stampede did not die because of poverty but because the administration had reduced them to beggars, making their lives worth nothing more than ₦5,000.
“They died during the stampede because they were desperately hungry; in other words, they knew if they didn’t get that food, they had nothing at home to fall back on. So, they struggled for that ₦5,000 and some grains of rice. The worth of lives in Tinubu’s government is now about ₦5,000,” he said.
Okonkwo, however, urged the government to take proactive measures because Nigerians are now poorer than they were when the administration came into power.
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