Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda a scam that has pushed millions more into multidimensional poverty, he says
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda is a scam that has brought more hopelessness to Nigerians, says Usman Yusuf, a professor and member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF).
Yusuf, who was once National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Executive Secretary, lamented on Channels Television that rather than infuse citizens with hope, the Tinubu administration has made them more hopeless since the President came to power on 29 May 2023.
“People have lost hope. It pains me to see our people lining up to collect cups of palliatives. Renewed Hope has turned into hopelessness. People have lost hope. The last one year has been a year of nothing but deception, destitution and hopelessness,” he said.
“From next week [May 20], they will start telling us their propaganda. What have they done to benefit the ordinary people? In a span of one year, they have brought millions of people back into multidimensional poverty, they have pushed millions more children out of school because their parents cannot pay their school fees.”
Yusuf dismissed Tinubu’s economic management team as “tax collectors” rather than “economists”.
“The economic team, to me, looks more like tax collectors than economists. Taxation does not grow the economy; only production does.”
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