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Former Minister Highlights Nigeria’s Poverty Crisis: ‘Someone Called Me 30 Times Pleading for N3000’

by Editorial Team
5 February 2025
in Lifestyle, News
Former Minister Highlights Nigeria's Poverty Crisis: 'Someone Called Me 30 Times Pleading for N3000'

Former Communication Minister Adebayo Shittu has decried the high poverty rate in the country, saying many Nigerians have become beggars. 

 

Shittu who served under the Buhari administration, appeared on AIT and decried how Nigeria’s economic condition has turned citizens into beggars.

 

According to him, a man called him from Bauchi to beg for N1,000 to feed, adding that another woman called him 30 times to beg for N3,000.

 

“Yesterday, before I left Ibadan, somebody phoned me from Bauchi and begged me for N1,000. He said he had not eaten for two days. Again, about a week ago, somebody also called me, a woman who wanted N3,000. At the time she wanted that morning, unbelievably, I myself didn’t have that money, and the woman called me 30 times in one day.” he said

 

He averred that poverty had been weaponized in the country to the extent that when politicians go to the people for votes, they tend to be more interested in what the politicians can give them rather than what they are capable of doing.

‘’It’s not my business to douse the poverty of such people calling. So when you go to such people to ask for their votes or support, they don’t care what you’re capable of doing. What they are interested in is what they can get out of you today.” he said

 

He stated that he currently doesn’t have money because he didn’t steal while in office. According to him, the post-political appointment life of many government officials can be challenging for those who didn’t steal in office.

 

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