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By Amah<\/p>\n
Kindly share:<\/span><\/p>\n A civil society group has advised President Bola Tinubu to urgently declare a state of emergency on basic health and agricultural sectors as the only way to pacify aggrieved Nigerians and end the ongoing nationwide hunger protests.<\/span><\/p>\n Kun\u00adle Yusuff, the Director General of the group, the Civil Society Organi\u00adsation on Community Ad\u00advancement and Humanitar\u00adian Empowerment Initiative, CSCHEI, in a statement in Abuja said the current situation in Nigeria requires the Federal Government double up on activities to relieve Nigerians of the current hardship to enjoy the dividends of democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n The statement read in part: \u201cOnce food is affordable for Nige\u00adrians to feed their families and they have access to basic health care, the social apathy will decline drastically,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe would like the Pres\u00adident to review housing and retirement policies. When you are sure that at your re\u00adtirement age, you can have an affordable house to accommo\u00addate your family and a function\u00adal pension scheme is in place, certainly this will further drag financial corruption to the barest minimum.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGovernment should pro\u00advide electricity and reaffirm hope for self-employed Nige\u00adrians. Electricity, Fuel, and Diesel are the immediate commodities that bind Nige\u00adrian masses together. Once there is energy sufficiency at reasonable rates for artisans to deploy their skills into pro\u00adductive activities, there will be drastic reduction in pressure on social faultiness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He charged the president’s media sides to be more active in engaging and communicating activities of the government to the people, adding that Nigerians should also jettison protests and opt for negotiations instead.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe communications desk and community engagements unit in Mr President\u2019s office should upscale performance on their duties and adopt work synergy among MDAs, and the appointees, to avoid administrative arrogance and conflict that may hinder the acceleration of eight point Agenda of this administra\u00adtion.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s on this note that CSCHEI appeal to leader\u00adship of CSOs, CBOs, NGOs, youths, students and all oth\u00ader critical stakeholders to em\u00adbrace negotiations and give the government more chance for most of their intervention to mature,\u201d Yusuff added.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt is imperative that the gov\u00adernment escalate actions with appropriate quantum of intervention in order to diffuse the social faultiness to avoid aggravating the masses into further agitation which always has a propensity to lead to social anarchy.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe also want to use this opportunity to appeal to the State Governors and Local Government Council Author\u00adities to always give accurate information for the masses to know the interventions coming from the Federal Government. At this point in time appropriate dissemination of information is necessary.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Amah Kindly share: A civil society group has advised President Bola Tinubu to urgently declare a state of emergency…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-civil-society-organisation-on-community-advancement-and-humanitarian-empowerment-initiative"],"yoast_head":"\n