₦airaland Forum

ddippset:
Surely nothing wrong with sharing palliatives but something could be wrong with palliatives..

1. If a percentage of the money gets diverted to government officials.
2. If the Palliatives are given to the wrong persons, those who don't really need them.
3. If the quantity that gets to people for instance is 2 cups of rice, 1 indomie and 10 cubes of maggi.

All of the above I have seen with my owns very eyes..

Budgeting money for palliatives should be a criminal offence in Nigeria.

kellyzaf:
Bro abeg, who and who benefited from the so called food palliative in 2024? Plz educate me too

lexy2014:
you said the highlighted above and at the same time you say



which government does he have that was horrible?

Zico5:
You are the insensitive one here. Tell me one person u know that collected FG palliative. You guys are liars, thieves and fraudsters.

Ojuntana:
See how you disgraced yourself trying to defend APC
What a pity
An otherwise smart individual

tctrills:
Think for a minute here and stop licking the feet of a terrible government. At N100 per meal, that amount would only provide one meal for Nigeria's poor people. So you are clapping for a government that provided a plate of rice in an entire year to the average poor Nigerian. Let's begin to use our brains and apply the primary school maths Uncle John taught us.
Note, that there are more than 100 million poor Nigerians.
This was a complete waste of money.

Image123:
Palliatives is freebies, a form of giving, nothing wrong with giving people. NGOs, religious institutions, philanthropists give, nothing wrong with government giving also, not only collect collect. But it doesn't solve the problems at hand.
Ask him what government he has that was horrible.

Image123:
this short term fix doesn't really fix anything.

Image123:
We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon.

Image123:
How much do you suggest to be spent next time? Na so people dey complain and criticize until asked to perform.

Image123:
PDP mismanaged our greatness as a country, putting us on a keg of gunpowder. With all the fatness, Okonjo was having headache and borrowing to pay ordinary salaries. The President GEJ told us we can't afford trains except locomotives. We're not kids if you are.

Image123:
The thing pain you sotey you quote am twice, lol. Truth is bitter indeed.

Image123:
But people were here calling Tinubu Mr. Rice and complaining that he should stop sharing rice. Are we saying that the government didn't share rice again?

Image123:
How much do you suggest to be spent next time? Na so people dey complain and criticize until asked to perform.

lexy2014:
how is nothing wrong with palliatives when you claim that





which government does he have that was horrible?

Image123:
Read through the thread and hear people saying what was shared/collected was too small. That you didn't collect doesn't mean nobody did.

adenigga:
This is not fair in any way you put it!
N9.74b on food palliatives in 2024 in a country that has less than 300million population?!!!

Let us say you used N1b to mobilize to share N1m to each citizen in cash or transfer and let that one million reach everyone both young and old. You will see that that there will be remnant if perhaps N9.74b is the budget.

FG why una dey suffer us like this

This amount you say you spent is not true na! 🤨

Source: https://punchng.com/FG-spent-N9.74bn-on-food-palliatives-Report

Image123:
Nothing wrong with palliatives, stop being a sore loser just criticizing everything as if you know anything. We've all experienced your government and it was horrible, so goan siddon. If they didn't make a single provision, you would still wail about cushion and government insensitivity to the poor.

Jughead29:
Who believe this lies??

They have spent subsidy money and trying to cover up

CharlesofJesus:
I see free rice Collect this December so no be everything enter air...

FireUpNow:
Lucky you

tctrills:
Zero and here is why. We don't have enough money to make any meaningful impact feeding the poor directly.
So rather than provide one meal a year for the poor, why don't you spend the money on more sustainable projects?

Again, your question was asked in bad faith. The purpose of good governance is not to stop people from complaining and criticizing but to better the lives of the people. If 98 billion naira worth of food is divided among all the poor, no one's life would be better. Let us begin to use our heads.

leo22:
So you mean you actually got your own palliative? You can swear?

Yes, there is nothing wrong with palliatives, but when the pains caused by a few is used to steal from them, it not just wrong, but evil!

It is gross foolishness and a display of retardant behavior to defend an obvious lie and wickedness because of tribe, ethnicity or religion.

Grow up

Ojuntana:
Sharing rice in the pages of newspaper

Ojuntana:
Those are the lies you tell yourself in your APC coven
Nigeria was great before PDP took over in 1999 and they then mismanaged it. Bloody lie!!
Nigeria was comatose in 1999. Foreign reserve was just about $5bn with various embargoes and humongous debts. Minimum wage was a paltry N700 with high unemployment rate
PDP handed over a far better Nigeria to APC who have steadily taken Nigeria back to the pre-1999 era where the middle class was a struggling class.
More Nigerians are now using sawdust and charcoal than before 1999!!
Same rail was built under GEJ. You bloody liars. Can you point to one rail that has been fully paid for in Nigeria? Even the Lagos rails are not fully paid for. Who is deceiving who? And have we stopped using locomotives or are you an illiterate?
Did we stop borrowing to pay salaries after Okonjo Iweala?

Zico5:
They were saying it cos they did not know no one collect. Swear with everything you have if truly this government paid any palliative. I'm in Lagos and I never heard anyone collected anything unless you guys are paying ghosts.

Image123:
Unfortunately, the country is not run by one person but based on collective interests. Many states asked for palliatives and many even still ask for subsidies. The FG cannot unanimously remove the feeding bottle without providing some cushion. The 2024 budget had a total expenditure of NGN 27.5 trillion. This 10billion naira is about 0.04% of the budget. The over 99.95% of the remaining can be spent on more sustainable projects. This doesn't kill.