Former Information Minister Prince Tony Momoh and a strong supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the current agitation sweeping across the country to the recession which has caused idle minds and hunger in the land.
The recession, he said, was caused by mismanagement of the country's resources. He said there is huge unemployment caused by mismanagement and if the money mismanaged was judiciously used and the manufacturing industries working in full capacity, that would have engaged idle minds and no one would be thinking of making trouble via agitations.
He blamed this current wave of agitations on the failure of leadership by Nigeria's successive governments.
According to him, ''The country is in a recession and being in a recession, things are difficult for everyone. There is loss of employment; a lot of people are hungry; a lot of people who have been in employment are out of employment. But the situation is not peculiar to Nigeria; it is a worldwide event and when you have a situation like this, the devil finds job for a lot of idle hands. Many people look at what is happening and which they feel is injustice and react to it in their own way. They make all kinds of speeches and the hate speeches we have now could even turn to violence.''
On the way out, he said if the needs of the people are provided which will leave them engaged from morning till evening they wont ''have the time to go and start disturbing people.''
'' In the situation, what you do is provide the needs of the people and everybody would be back to order. If everybody is working from morning till evening, they would not have time to go and be disturbing anybody. If our industries are back and things are working, people would earn a living and they would not disturb anybody. So, it is the denial occasioned by the recession which came by and large through mismanagement that is the problem. We have mismanaged our economy over time and the money which was supposed to be used to grow the economy, was mismanaged and we do not have anything on ground to show the money we have been making.''
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