Are we supposed to believe Shettima cares about the Borno state shoe polish poverty alleviation scheme?

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Governor Kashim Shettima really thinks we are all idiots.

While we are still coming to terms with the fact that stomach infrastructure isn’t good for Nigeria in 2018, the Borno commissioner for Higher Education Usman Jaha thought it was a great idea to donate shoe shining kits to Borno youth as part of his campaign strategy for 2019 elections – a position a Premium Times reports say is at variance with the Governor, who has expressed ‘disappointment’ with the choice of ’empowerment’ by the Commissioner.

According to a government official who addressed a group of journalists on the development, the Governor described the donation as an embarrassment to the commissioner and the administration. However, anyone who has followed the tenures of Northern governors know this is not an isolated incident. In fact, ’empowerment’ schemes that force young Nigerians into unskilled jobs instead of schemes that provide vocational training and the potential for empowerment is a common tactic in Northern Nigeria. Usman Jaha was most likely working with the consent of the governor, and now that the scheme has brought ridicule instead of praise, the government is disowning him and letting him be ridiculed alone.

The fact remains, Borno isn’t the first state to implement a ‘poverty alleviation’ scheme that does the barest minimum to actually lift its citizens out of poverty. The Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom once ’empowered’ his state youth with wheelbarrows, his Kano counterpart, Umar Ganduje ’empowered’ youth with a set of starter kits for ‘mai shayi’ business. The President on his recent visit to a Northern state commissioned a set of wooden carts to create jobs for more cart pushers and there is the glorified thirty thousand Naira N-Power jobs at the Federal level. However, children of the elite are finding their way into the CBN, FIRS among others.

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Usman Jaha’s poverty alleviation scheme.
When Benue governor, Samuel Ortom did it.
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And of course, the Kano governor Umar Ganduje sharing out ‘mai shayi’ kits

These among others are the reasons why Jaha never saw anything wrong in giving shoe polish kits to those hapless youth. He was only implementing an existing grand plan by the country’s elite aimed at enslaving Nigerians, especially the youth. The state Governor’s outburst and criticism came as a result of social media outcry.

The elites by their thoughts and  actions are determined to keep more Nigerians in eternal penury and they are winning at the moment.

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