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Catholic Bishops have registered their discontent with the failing and worsening economic situations which have continued to make living difficult and hard for Nigerians.
The clerics under the aegis of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), in a communique signed by its President, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, at the end of its second plenary meeting in Abuja, lamented that Nigerians have been subjected to a life of poverty, hunger, hardship and suffering.
“The condition has been aggravated by the removal of fuel subsidy which has led to high cost of food items, transportation and meeting up with other essential needs. As if these are not enough, the hike in school fees has made it difficult for the children of the poor to continue their education.
“Based on past experience, we consider the resort to palliative measures as a treatment of the symptom rather than the cure for the disease. We, therefore, urge the government to address the fundamental defective structures that deepened inequality and poverty.”
They called on governments to provide an enabling environment for the creation of more jobs for the teeming unemployed youths, in addition to measures that would curb the persistence of theft of oil and other minerals.
They also enjoined the government to radically review programmes aimed at alleviating the suffering of the youths, while the youths are not to resort to violence and crime as a substitute for hard work.
