Former Cross River State
Governor, Donald Duke, yesterday mocked the Buhari government for rejoicing
over Nigeria’s ‘exit’ from recession.
Duke, who said he’s broke, also
advised the administration to work harder, stating that the masses were yet to
feel the development.
“Just because it is easier for
goods to pass through the port…that’s no big deal,” he said at the official
launch of the National Competitiveness Report and Sub National Index held in
Lagos.
“The point is what does each one
of us add to the general well-being of the country. Most folks in Nigeria are
parasitic.
“You walk on the streets and
people in the prime of their lives are hawking plantain chips if they are lucky
to find something to hawk.
“We, the few privileged, sit in
our cars, our windows wound up, and pretend to look at our phones because we
don’t want to see the reality out there.
“This country, for instance, has
to grow at about 15 per cent annually, not in Lagos, but nationally, for the
next ten years, to absorb the numbers that are out of the economy. We are
self-deceptive. We say that unemployment is 15 per cent.
“In other words, out of every 100
only 15 have no jobs. I think it is the other way round; only 15 have jobs and
the rest 85 are living off the 15. The question is how long can that go on?
“Then we sit down and say that
inflation is 16 per cent. How do you arrive at that? I know I’m broke. So if
inflation is too much money in circulation, where is this money?
“The truth is too few people have
too much money. If you re-circulate resources properly, and I am not being
socialist here (all you need to do is to create jobs for people), then you’ll
find that it will reflect on the economy.
“So what we are doing is to run a
goodwill economy; 85 percent of the economy is depending on the goodwill of the
15 percent.”
Duke further advocated for a
policy he described as SHIT (Skills, Health, Infrastructure and Technology).
“I don’t use education any longer
because education is beyond reading and writing. Education without the set
skills that make you productive is hollow,” he said.
“We are ridiculously spiritual
because we live purely by the grace of God. Yes, we all do, but heaven helps
those who help themselves. If you are afflicted here by a disease today, your
chances of survival are 50:50.
“The drugs for common diseases
are not even manufactured here. So we have a loss of productivity that we have
not addressed at all.”
Bros take am easy ooo.Buhari will send EFCC to trace money to your account just now because you are saying the truth. 2019 is near,we will vote APC out the way we voted PDP out. their fake stories are just out of hand and mind blowing
ReplyDeletewe know that there is no free money to share any more, so therefore anyone that is in no position to that free money will be discrediting this government old go to farm or do something legitimately # work hard because the difference is clear
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ReplyDeleteDon't deceive yourselves. Nigeria is not out of recession. What's the exchange rate of Nigeria Naira to the US dollar?
ReplyDeleteIdiots who does not go to school. You reason with your annual. Your party PDP squander the opportunity to increase our and the production economy rather than import economy, when Chris will in turn makes the nairaland strong against dollars. No more free money and you are crying
DeleteFor sure we will vote APC out in 2019 just like we did to PDP in 2015.
ReplyDeleteFor sure we will vote APC out in 2019 just like we did to PDP in 2015.
ReplyDeleteDonald Duke, if u are broke, it means u are not creative..whilst ur mates are making money and even helping others..the Davidos, AY, Ubong King, Dangotes, etc etc are lifting people and giving back to d society..u are shouting broke..it means maybe u have finished d one u stole too..Baba don lock everywhere..no.more free money..recall that Baba said, d days of free money are over..God bless Baba..
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