Shehu Sani, senator representing
Kaduna central, says the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme
(SURE-P) and the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) are largesse
dispensed for political goals.
The SURE-P was created in 2012
during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan while the NSIP was
created by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to reduce
unemployment.
Sani alleged that the programmes
are aimed at throwing handouts and crumbs to the masses with the aim of
pacifying them and retaining their support for the political establishment and
the ruling parties.
According to him, the SURE-P was
designed to build the support base of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while N-Power
was designed to build that of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He described the programmes as
“handouts thrown to the masses to purchase their conscience and loyalty”.
“The ideological basis and
reasoning of both the SURE-P and NSIP programmes is to reinforce the
iniquities, inequalities and plunder inherent in the prevailing socioeconomic
system that institutionalized the class privilege of a few against a many,” he
said.
“The SURE-P programme was
designed to build up the grassroots support base of the PDP and the N-Power was
designed to build the grassroots support base of the APC.
“SURE-P and NSIP are
institutionalised state generosities and philanthropy presented as social
intervention while actually intended to neutralise mass resistance against
social injustice and inequality presided over by the political establishment
and the ruling elites.
“SURE-P and N-Power are all hands
outs thrown to the poor ‘to purchase their conscience and loyalty’.
“SURE-P was a larcenous bread of
corruption and N-Power is a butter of social deceit. Nigeria’s poverty problems
can’t be solved by a ration system of throwing peanuts.
“N-Power is a repackaged SURE-P
programme that only encourages the culture of social dependency on state
handouts.”
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