Economic reforms: Stop deceiving Nigerians with figures, Sowore tells FG
…Says Nigerians are still multidimensionally poor…Faults subsidy removal, says policy deepened hardship By Juliet Umeh Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has urged the Federal Government to stop relying on rising revenue and other macroeconomic figures to justify its economic reforms, saying such statistics have yet to translate into improved living conditions for Nigerians.
In fact, the people that get the most subsidy in Nigeria are not the poor.
He further alleged that wealthy individuals and businesses benefited from government waivers and other incentives, while the poor bore the immediate consequences of the removal of fuel subsidy.
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