Nigeria is a place where everyone is on his own. The elderly, the jobless. indigent children and disabled people are not remembered in budgets year after year. Even when there is a budget for them it is ambiguous non systemic and ends up being siphoned by those that are already comfortable. We often forget that food is a human right that a government that gas hungry people roaming the street have already failed. Occassionally rich people in Nigeria try to bridge the gap by going to donate food to charity, renovate houses and even give scholarship. One Senator was heard saying that his salary need to be huge because he shares it with indigent people in his senatorial zone. Politicians are secretly happy to donate to random people and take pictures but they are not willing to pass laws to build a shelter in every local government and feed people that are hungry and possible give pocket money to the jobless. Many young Nigerians grow up with the burden of knowing that there are jobless family members to be fed, retired parents to be taken care of ,churches to receive tithe and may other responsibilities not calculated into their salaries. That is depressing. For every one person that receive bail out from a politician or celebrity there are million more about to die of hunger and disease. Maybe if Government had a feeding and job program for hungry people there would be decreased militancy and crime. It is excellent that Senator Saraki assisted Yekini's mother but he is in a position to make law for states to take care of their poor people.
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