Be Patience with FG, Female Lawmaker Advises Nigerians

Hammed Shittu in Ilorin

The only youngest female lawmaker in the 36 state House of Assemblies in Nigeria, Hon. Rukayah Shittu, at the weekend, appealed to Nigerians to continue to remain patient with the federal government in the quest to revamp the country’s economy occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal.

Shittu, a member representing  Owode/Onire state constituency in the Kwara State House of Assembly, made the appeal in Ilorin while speaking with journalists on the state of the nation.

She said the federal government under President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has remained committed to addressing the state of the nation’s economy occasioned by his recent removal of fuel subsidy.

 The lawmaker said: “The pains might be so much, but at the end of the policy, every Nigerian would have a cause to benefit from the policy.”

She noted that there was no other option than for the government to embark on such a policy as this would put an end to the lots of funds being embezzled in the name of importing fuel into the country.

Shittu added that the policy has necessitated the provisions of palliatives to vulnerable people in society so as to ameliorate the hardship occasioned by the introduction of the policy by the government.

On her part, the lawmaker stated that she has been embarking on the provision of dividends of democracy to the people of her constituents since her assumption of office as their representative in order to advance their well-being.

Shittu added that the state government under the leadership of Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq has been up and doing in the task of addressing the sufferings of the people through various series of empowerment programmes and provisions of infrastructures at the doorsteps of the rural populace in the state.

She pointed out further that apart from this, the state government has started the distribution of palliatives to the residents of the state so as to reduce the suffering from the fuel subsidy removal.

The lawmaker, however, said the members of the state of House of Assembly would continue to make laws that would advance the cause of the people so as to bring the government closer to the grassroots.

She therefore, solicited the support of the people for the current administration in order to move the state forward.