Tortoise and the $1bn rain that came after the harvest, By Festus Adedayo
The catalyst for this sudden, infectious jubilation was the grand launch of the $1 billion Household Prosperity and Empowerment Social Protection Project (HOPE-SP) inside the State House Banquet Hall.
When a government inflicts macro-economic shock therapy on its citizens, without immediate, synchronized safety nets as the Tinubu government has done since May 29, 2023, any eventual palliative, no matter how grandly packaged inside state banquet halls, feels less like a lifeline, with greater optics of an afterthought.
You cannot systematically subject a populace to severe economic attrition for three years and three months, yet expect a sudden shower of palliatives to convert widespread mourning into dancing as Alábahun did.
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