The Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN) the umbrella body of cattle breeders in Northern Nigeria, have call on other governors to emulate Governor Mai Mala Buni’s directive on the palliative distribution committee in Yobe State, to be fair and just.
KACRAN in a statement issued on Thursday said it absolutely believed that with the exception of very small children, all Nigerians are fully aware of and feeling the painful, negative impact of total removal of fuel subsidy by the President.
They however insisted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s plan to give palliative to about 50 million Nigerians in order to minimally reduce the untold hardship must reach the very downtrodden for whom it is meant.
SUNRISE NEWS recalled that there was a successful meeting held in Lagos sometime last month between our President and Governors where they mutually agreed that, the palliative will be distributed to Nigerians through our State governors probably for the fact that, the ruling party is in control of more than 20 states in the country and because the State Governments are more closer to the grassroots than the federal government and that the President wanted to create harmonious working relation with all the state governors of the federation regardless of their party affiliation.
KACRAN in the statement stated that if there is any time that Nigerians are badly in need of palliatives, is is this time, where the poor masses of the country are being faced with how to survive because the soaring prices of food stuff and social amenities are on daily basis rise beyond reach of the common man.
KACRAN explained that millions of Nigerians are finding it extremely difficult to afford one meal daily.
The statement further added: “We have being sorrowfully/sympathetically receiving calls from our members from various states intimating us that, sometimes some Nigerians will stay for several days without cooking food in their houses.
“It is an open secret that millions of Nigerians, are now painfully forced to resort to begging for survival.
“We are aware that Mr President has laid how palliatives would be distributed and anchored by the state governors. We are also aware that most of our state governors have already started distributing food palliatives.
In Yobe State for example, His Excellency, Hon Mai Mala Buni, CON, (Chiroman Gujba) in his good intention to see that all people of the state regardless of religion, tribe, political inclinations are treated justly and equitably, wisely formed the palliative distribution committee whose membership were drawn from various Political Parties in the state; labour Union; NUJ; Lawyers; people with disabilities; Women Associations etc and warned them to give palliative to all Yobean and those who are living in the state without segregation.
Impressingly, when swearing in the palliative distribution committee in Damaturu, the State Capital, Governor Mai Mala Buni boldly stated that, the palliative is for all people of the state so that the members must make sure that they carry out their assignment with objectivity and fear of God so that they will be fair and just to all.
In view of the above positive development which Hon Mai Mala Buni displayed an his examplary Sterling leadership quality, we of Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN), wish to appeal to all Nigerian state Governors to kindly emulate Buni’s example to graciously advise their distribution committees to make sure that they treat their people objectively, because, it is only by so doing that all Nigerians will enjoy the gesture of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who wanted to cushion the suffering of millions Nigerians resulting from the total fuel subsidy removal.