The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday warned that trouble looms if the federal government fails to urgently provide special relief funds for ordinary Nigerians to cushion the effect of the stay at home order in the wake of the covid19 pandemic
In his statement he said , If we have to eventually shut down our country, then as a government, we must be prepared to have some relief for the most ordinary people.
“As a government, we must find our own money to fund something for our people, because the United States of America that is talked about or the British Parliament is because this involves public funds.
“I’m not seeing anything at the moment targeted at providing some relief. If we lock up Nigeria today, then we will wake up trouble, because majority of our citizens go to market everyday before they can get something to eat.
“We need to have some kind of supplies for the people. I don’t know how we can achieve this, but we have to be ingenious.
“This is a time to think deep and wide, to provide for our people, in order for us at least to deal with this challenge at the moment.”
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