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Nigeria - The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko Inde on Tuesday faulted a proposed move by the Buhari-led administration to give N5000 monthly allowance to the unemployed youths, ThisDay reports.
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo had announced that FG will soon commence payment of N5,000 monthly stipend to poor and unemployed Nigerians.
Read More: President Buhari Set to Pay Poor,Unemployed Nigerians N5,000 Monthly
The Customs boss stressed that stressing that he would prefer that the money be committed to providing jobs instead.
“I will rather prefer to finance the local industries with SURE-P, than to give ordinary persons N5000 because the common sense is that don’t give me fish but teach me how to fish.
“So by giving him the N5000, you are killing him-after the N5000 now what? He’ll come back and if you don’t give him, he becomes violent because he believes it’s his legitimate right to get a money he didn’t work for.”
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo had announced that FG will soon commence payment of N5,000 monthly stipend to poor and unemployed Nigerians.
Read More: President Buhari Set to Pay Poor,Unemployed Nigerians N5,000 Monthly
The Customs boss stressed that stressing that he would prefer that the money be committed to providing jobs instead.
“I will rather prefer to finance the local industries with SURE-P, than to give ordinary persons N5000 because the common sense is that don’t give me fish but teach me how to fish.
“So by giving him the N5000, you are killing him-after the N5000 now what? He’ll come back and if you don’t give him, he becomes violent because he believes it’s his legitimate right to get a money he didn’t work for.”
