When distributed among the more than 133 million multifacetedly impoverished Nigerians, the N5 billion palliative package offered by the federal government won’t equal N1500 per individual, according to Joe Ajero, president of the Nigerian Labour Congress.
Ajero stated this on Friday during an interview on the Politics Today program on Channels Television. Citing data from the National Bureau of Statistics, he claimed that N185 billion could not possibly make a difference for the 133 million multifacetedly impoverished Nigerians.
The leader of the labor union insisted that even if the money were translated to the equivalent of six trailers of rice, it would not equal one cup of rice for each person.
“In fact, many people shifted from the edge of poverty to a very high level of poverty between the first and most recent increases in the price of gasoline at the pump. If you add that up and do the math, you’ll find that it doesn’t come to N1500 per person, and you’ll wonder if that’s the impact we want to make,” he said.