Hassan Turaki.
Hardship: “Someone Called Me 30 Times for N3,000, but I Had Nothing to Give,” Former Minister Adebayo Shittu Laments Poverty in Nigeria.
Former Communication Minister Adebayo Shittu has decried the high poverty rate in the country, saying many Nigerians have become beggars.
Shittu, while appearing on an AIT programme, Focus Nigeria, cited examples of how Nigeria’s economic condition has turned citizens into beggars.
He said, “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.”
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