A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba, has warned that hunger riot might soon break out in Nigeria unless Federal Government to acts fast.
Agbakoba gave this warning on Tuesday at a press conference held in his office in Ikoyi, Lagos.
He noted that the majority of Nigerians could not put food on their tables due to extreme poverty.
This situation, he noted, obtained inspite of the nation’s enormous oil and gas resources which, according to him, have been hijacked by foreigners.
Agbakoba maintained that Nigeria as a nation should avoid a situation where the masses would be pushed to the wall due to hunger.
He warned that hungry people could resort to forcibly entering people’s houses and shops in broad daylight to cart away food items.
“Hunger riot can occur anytime in Nigeria,” Agbakoba said, advising Tinubu to restructure his cabinet and cut the cost of governance.
“President Tinubu needs to dismantle the cabinet. Having over 40 ministers is too large. We don’t need more than 20 ministries,” he said.
The SAN also advised Tinubu to scrap some government agencies and expand the tax net, accusing some of the multinational oil companies of tax evasion.
“Don’t increase taxes, just expand the tax net and go after defaulting IOCs,” he said.
