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As Nigerian Economic Crisis Deepens, Suicidal Cases May Soar, Kizito Ijeh Warns

 As Nigerian Economic Crisis Deepens, Suicidal Cases May Soar, Kizito Ijeh Warns



- Emeka Esogbue


Politician and People of Oshimili North (PoON) founder, Chief Kizito Osadebe Ijeh has lamented Nigeria's worsening economic situation, warning that the situation is pregnant with more serious consequences for the nation's citizens. 


Chief Ijeh, in a brief message delivered to the members of People of Oshimili North on Monday feared that the nation's worsening situation may further lead to increase in suicidal cases and acceleration of crimes in the country. 


The PDP veteran politician from Ibusa in Delta State expressed shock at the deepening economic crisis that the people have to deal with.


"With the way things are going, I foresee a lot of suicides and despicable crimes in the nearest future."

 

"Tragically, our educational system didn't prepare us for this time."


Kizito Ijeh explained that Nigerian children go to school to learn what they could hardly survive on. 


"I see my generation as lucky."


"Ten years from now, we may descend to South Africa's level, where their citizens wake up and stroll to the parks and stare at empty horizons."


"Most times you hear of adults raping two-year olds to death."


"Their girls are culturally expected to have kids at 15 years and then enter the streets to fend for their parents and infants who grow up to meet the same fate."


"I feel sorry for them, my brothers."


Chief Ijeh whose People of Oshimili North initiative recently extended philanthropic gestures to widows in some communities of Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State also lamented the consequences of the deepening economic crisis on Nigerians, stating that Nigerians have been converted to beggars in their own country.   


"The way people like us wake up to the calls of friends in dire need asking for 2,000 is alarming," he regretted.


"We live with them; we live with the realities on the ground."


"I just pray to die before my eyes will start seeing my ears."


As the Nigerian economic situation bites harder, the Nigerian Labour Congress is asking for an increase in minimum wage while a section of others believe the solution to lie in forcing down the prices of goods and services in the country such as petroleum price, electricity tariffs and others to avoid a state of deflation.

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