{"id":11000,"date":"2019-06-02T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11000"},"modified":"2019-06-02T14:08:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:08:34","slug":"timi-frank-laments-over-economist-magazine-report-on-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/timi-frank-laments-over-economist-magazine-report-on-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Timi Frank laments over Economist Magazine report on Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Comrade Timi Frank has accused the federal government of deepening poverty in the country with its polices<\/p>\n<p>The former APC deputy spokesman made the comment in reaction to a report by Economist Magazine on Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The magazine had stated that Nigerians have become the poorest citizens of a country in the whole world under Buhari\u2019s first term<\/p>\n<p>A former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Sunday, June 2, accused the federal government of deepening poverty in the country with its polices.<\/p>\n<p>Frank was reacting to a report by The Economist Magazine that \u201cNigerians have become the poorest citizens of a country in the whole world, under President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s first term in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Comrade Frank, the gradual extermination of Nigerians through poverty is an incontrovertible fact that the present government has refused to acknowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality on our streets speaks to that of a failed country. But the agony and irony of this precarious situation is that Buhari and his boot lickers continue to deny the reality which their actions and inactions have foisted on the people,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cBuhari has failed to recognize that a democracy is not a military government. He has failed to realize that you cannot run a multi-ethnic and pluralistic society on the principle of command and control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further lamented that the government&#8217;s archaic and centrist disposition are not good for the country.<\/p>\n<p>His words: \u201cWe can no longer afford to let the IMF, World Bank, China, development partners and donor agencies to bail us out of this deadly economic quagmire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the time to arise and take back our country if peradventure we can stop the drift and make life bearable for the over 90 million Nigerians now living in abject poverty and hopelessness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose that are fortunate to be alive daily contend with harsh and unimaginable livelihoods. Unemployment pervades the land. Incomes are declining. Healthcare is un-affordable. We still lack basic amenities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are confronted by bandits and kidnappers on our bad roads, killed in our villages by insurgents. We have been besieged in our own country by an pharaonic regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcept we speak up, we may all likewise perish. God forbid! I believe that there remains enough good and patriotic men in Nigeria to confront this evil regime and stop the country from sliding irretrievably.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Comrade Timi Frank has accused the federal government of deepening poverty in the country with its polices The former APC deputy spokesman made the comment in reaction to a report by Economist Magazine on Nigeria &#8211; The magazine had stated that Nigerians have become the poorest citizens of a country in the whole world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[519,106,566,333,580],"class_list":["post-11000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-imf","tag-timi-frank","tag-world-bank"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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