Treasury looters now buying up products to cause hunger - Emir
- The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been facing heavy criticisms over the state of the nation
- Some have accused the government of lacking in effective policies, but the Emir of Borgu does not think so as he makes some revelations
The Emir of Borgu Kingdom, Mohammadu Sani Dantoro Kitoro IV, has revealed that many treasury looters in Nigeria have adopted new ways to keep Nigerians perpetually hungry.
According to him, in an attempt to continuously discredit the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, the looters have resorted to buying foodstuffs and other commodities just to hoard same and provoke the citizens.
Treasury looters now buying up products to cause hunger - Emir
The Buhari administration has faced some criticism recently following the current economic state of the country. Some, including Emir Muhammad Sanusi of Kano, have accused the government of lacking in effective policies to move the country away from its problems.
Kitoro, while speaking during the presentation of the letter of appointment of 'Mabudin Borgu' to the director-general of Think Nigeria First Initiative (TNFI), Ambassador Abubakar Tsanni, at the weekend in Abuja, said the corrupt leaders have been using their agents to visit markets to buy up grains just to cause a hike in products.
"We all know what we went through in the last sixteen years that at a point some people were said to have stolen hundreds of millions in foreign currency and billions of naira from the coffers of the nation and hid in weird places.
"People are buying foodstuffs to create artificial scarcity using the resources they looted from the government of Nigeria.
"They hoard foodstuffs so that there will be scarcity in the country and make people suffer, and this is inhuman. What do you want the government to do in such scenario?” The monarch queried.
Daily Times reports that the emir illustrated this with how such agents visited his town recently.
“When I found out that this kind of situation was happening in my emirate, I took certain decisions irrespective of the rights any individual has to buy or sell goods and properties because part of the discharge of the responsibilities bestowed on me is to make sure that my people don’t suffer unjustly.
“We saw people bringing millions of naira to buy foodstuffs, taking them away from our people and the prices of foodstuff became very high beyond the reach of the common man.
"So, I summoned a security meeting including all the District Heads and we took a decision at that meeting that nobody will be allow to move out with a large quantity of foodstuffs.
"At that time a Mudu of local rice was sold between N500 to N600 but today with the decision that we have taken, rice is being sold between N200 to N250 per mudu (a cup for measuring grains)," he said.
He pleaded with Nigerians to be patient with the government as the latter makes efforts to resolve the country's problems.
“At the time, our late father thought there was the need to come together and have a very formidable force to salvage Nigeria.
"It was a very good thinking and he did that because he wanted Nigeria to remain as one and for the common man to be able to say this is my country.
“He did that with all sense of responsibility and he decided to bring all that matter together to get them convinced on the need to have a united front to be able to salvage this country, and I thank God almighty that the aim was achieved and by that merger of all those political parties that made up the present APC which is the ruling party.
"Nigerians at that time with the quest for change, they decided to vote in the government of the day. I think before his death, he was able to achieve his dream in this regard,” he said.
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