Award winner and social media influencer Reno Omokri in his reaction to Otunba Dele Momodu’s opinion write-up that there is no light at the end of the tunnel with the administration of government of the day said he disagreed with such assertion, presented statistics to justify his dispositions.
Newsconnect reports that Reno in his response said President Bola Tinubu did not bring hardship to Nigeria. That hardship was always there, because we were not producing enough, yet we were living above our means, he said.
In his words, he said ;
“What the President has done is to remove the feeding bottle of borrowing, which we had hitherto used to avoid living within our means.
“By making it impossible for us to sustain our fake lifestyle of taking foreign loans to subsidise the Naira and pay fuel subsidy, as well as artificially reduce the price of electricity, the President has forced Nigerians to come to terms with reality and live within our means.
“If you think taking foreign loans to subsidise the Naira and make imports cheaper than locally manufactured goods is ‘light at the end of the tunnel’, then I would respectfully have to disagree.
“If rice from Thailand is now too expensive for us as Nigerians, we should not write long articles or pray for miracles. God has already given us rain and land, just as He gave Thailand. It is now left to us to use our brains and hands. Farm for your survival.
“Nigerians have seed money. Please fact-check me: We import $200 million worth of human hair wigs for our women every year. £25 million worth of Scotch whiskey and $75 million French champagne. We do not need subsidised dollars. If you give it to us, we will piss it away on useless imports that add no or low value to our GDP”. He said