HUNGER IN THE LAND, BALARABE WARNS BUHARI

The National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), and Former Governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe musa has decribed the economic hardship of this country and called on the president to address the matter rather than given us excuses and promises.

During his interview from Daily sun, He said,

when asked if he agreed with the recent letter to president on massive hunger in the land, he said

"I am more than in agreement with him. In fact, I dare to warn the President and everybody that can listen, that history has proved that mass hunger, hunger of the population, mass poverty of the population, killer hunger have always been the most immediate cause of proletarian revolution in every country of the world. And the President should know this; let him not be deceived by those who are benefitting from the current situation of hunger."

"Definitely APC inherited this bad situation, but APC came to power with the promise of correcting the negative state of the nation.

In this case, instead of correcting it, they are just complaining, making promises, how can they continue to do this over one year of leadership?

We want to see them really doing work, and there is no way they can do any work and achieve anything without changing the system and the leadership inevitably produced by the system, both of which are based on self interest first, public interest second or even incidental. This should be changed in favour of public interest first and self interest second. 

This can deal with this level of corruption, stealing and criminal waste of resources which is the root of the problem of Nigeria. 

In the history of Nigeria, up till 1970, the philosophy was public interest first, and self interest second. And the states maintain the leading roles in the economy, and that is why up till 1970, there wasn’t this level of corruption, stealing and criminal wasting of resources.

We have known times in Nigeria before 1970 when nobody could steal a kobo of public funds and get away with it. Today, if you are a favourite of the President, the governor or the local government chairman or who they have appointed into office, you can steal anything and get away with it provided you are lucky because some people stole, they are not lucky and they are caught."

He also lamented about the present administration policy on farming business

"First of all, the government is not even helping in any way now. Government used to help a lot, but now they are not helping at all."

"In the past, government was helping with cheap loan. For instance, three percent interest, government was helping with the supply of cheap inputs, government was helping farmers with modern agricultural processes and so on."

"And there was even a time when government was buying grains in particular from farmers that they could not sell at commercial and competitive price. But government is not doing that any more."

He also advised Nigeria to access any prospective leader critically 

"Well, may be Nigerians are now saying that they misjudged, and Nigerians should in future make sure that they access any prospective leader critically, taking into account his records, his inclination and everything, particularly records of performance in office."