Open Letter To President Muhammad Buhari, The Nigeria President.

5^th April, 2020

To

President Muhammad Buhari,

The Nigerian of President

Aso-Rock Villa,

Abuja, Nigeria.

                              Letter of Appeal/Advice on Corona Virus Pandemic

Dear Mr President,

The aim of this letter is to advice you on certain issues that you can do to help ordinary Nigerians to survive this period of Corona virus pandemic. Your excellency, permit me to advice you on how to tackle the hunger crisis that will befall Nigerians in due time if the lockdown continues. The aim of introducing BVN was to identify Nigerians within the Banking industries.

Since the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic, many world leaders have shown leadership skills by looking for a solution to ease the suffering of their citizens. Some have taken some extreme measures to make sure that their citizens are well protected and also not to have a serious negative effects on their daily life during this world most dangerous pandemic in the 21^st century.

I know your government have also taken some measures to protect her citizens by locking down the country. But one thing I do not understand is how your government wants to ease the hunger crisis that the citizens will face during the period of this unexpected lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of Nigeria.

I have seen some news that shows cash disbursements to the poor people in the Northern parts of the Country, and that your government have disbursed so far the total sum of 3 billion to poor Nigeria? But I have not seen any news about the cash disbursement to other parts of the country. If i may ask, is the South East/South South and Western region part of this cash disbursement arrangement? And how do you determine who is poor and who is not poor? There are people that drives cars, but they find it difficult to fuel their car.

What I’m trying to say is that let the government stop the discrimination of funds disbursement. I was told that so far, the total money generated through donations was 15 billions plus, why not add money to Make it 10 Trillion and give out 50,000 Naira to 200 million Nigerians, which is less than 150 Dollars to all the citizens through their BVN. America and other Countries are giving out something bigger than 150 dollars to its citizens. 

By doing so, some people that are really rich, might decides to return back the money that was given to them. Then lockdown the country for one full month and people will not feel the negative impact of the corona virus pandemic on their daily life. And also, slash the cost of clearing goods at the sea port within this period of Corona virus pandemic so that importers can reduce the cost of products and make goods affordable to the citizens. This is a period of sacrifice, let us help each other and please, don’t discriminate on this sacrifices.

It is funny that a country that have claimed to be the giant of Africa, does not know the number of its citizens because of political manipulation. For how long are we going to continue ridiculing ourselves in front of the world. Sometimes, we need to put away sentiment and get things right. The time has come, when the government should put a law that gives jail term to any citizens without a national Identity cards and also give banks and other institutions a directive to stop attending to anyone without a national identity card.

Let us use this opportunity to come together and get things done for the first time. Let us put outside, who did that and who did not do that, or who has failed and who did not and see this corona virus pandemic as a way to fix this country. Oil is becoming worthless, countries with oil reserves, have use the money during the oil boom to fix their infrastructure, but Nigeria could not account for any tangible things they have used the oil money to do, other than purchasing luxuries items.

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation and I pray to God to bless and protect you and also to give you the wisdoms, to continue to lead the people without sentiments.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Oscar Iwuama (Bc, MA)

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