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By Zika Bobby
A US-based lawyer and politician, Owolabi Salis, has advised President Bola Tinubu to take urgent steps to execute visionary policies geared at bailing the nation and it’s people from the excruciating throes of hardship in which they are helplessly entangled.
In his goodwill message to the president on the Freedom Day, marking the anniversary celebration of June 12 victory, the Ikorodu-born Lagosian, who in 2019, contested for governorship on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy, said: “While I rejoice with you on this historic moment of celebration, I cannot but hasten to reiterate with every sense of emphasis on the need for you to hearken to this salient exhortation with every urgency it requires because the event today being celebrated will not be meaningful, unless a sustained and intensified efforts are made to mitigate the severe hardship, which the people are currently passing through, and persistently groaning over.”
While recalling that the general mass of the electorates unanimously voted for Chief M.K.O. Abiola, the billionaire business mogul of blessed memory, irrespective of tribe, religion or sex, he noted that the overwhelming popular support was inspired by the confidence reposed in him as the messiah divinely ordained to liberate them from the shackles of poverty. squalor and misery to a new lease of comfortable existence.
In this respect, he urged the president to put in place effective measures geared at locating the country on the path of agricultural self-sufficiency, adding that it is inconceivable that any leader could ever hope to mobilise and lead a predominantly hungry populace towards any meaningful goal of nation building.
He commended the exemplary model of the nation of Israel as worthy of emulation, in the sense that, “It had the inherent misfortune of a barren land, which its leaders were able to transform to an agricultural paradise through a visionary application of the transformative power of science and technology.”
He stated further that the persistent demand for new minimum wage would not have generated much crisis or desperation on the part of workers if food, the most essential item for survival, were affordable to the common man.
Driving home his insistent demand for an urgent emphasis on agriculture, he warned that the increase may eventually turn out an exercise in futility if urgent and frantic attempts were not made to tackle the crucial aspect of agricultural productivity as the scenario is bound to result in a logjam of inflationary spiral, arising from too much money chasing a few stocks.
