Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre Mr. Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, at the just concluded 2019 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Washington DC, United States, participated in five-day policy dialogue sessions with civil society organisations, where views were exchanged on a wide range of issues affecting nations and humanity.
Nigeria should have done away with the subsidy long time ago. The present administration promised to stop paying subsidy because they discovered at that time that it is a scam, it is a fraud and nothing is being subsidized. Unfortunately, we have not seen that commitment being fulfilled by the government. The government is spending a lot of money on subsidy.
Also, during the meetings, there was a comment by some economic experts that poverty is like a time bomb ready to explode. Do you agree with them? Like you said, it is a claim which to me is not backed by any statistics. There was a claim that Nigeria has stopped importing rice but just last week, there has been a report of an alleged tons of rice being smuggled into the country. So if we are actually producing that the issue of smuggling wouldn’t have come up.
Women empowerment, girl-child education and financial inclusion are still issues. What effort is the CSO making to be the voice of the voiceless?
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