The rung at the bottom of the ladder

Jun 06, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,
The government recently announced relief packages to miners, rice farmers, fishermen, etc.
I do not know how these measures will help the ordinary person with the high cost of living which seems to be rising every few times you go to make purchases.
It started with vegetables.
After the flood and many losses, there were those who received compensations but the price of vegetables remained high and even got higher. These farmers lost nothing, in fact they gained. Many persons did not receive the twenty-five thousand relief and it is said that there are persons who received multiple times. The miners will not lose much and so too the rice farmers and fishermen, they are compensated.
And just like vegetables nothing will trickle down to the ordinary man.
Seven hundred thousand persons will feel and have to pay the price of high cost of living in this oil rich nation.
The remainder of the population will feel nothing because they are the farmers, fishermen and miners.
The government walks the villages, meet the people, listen to them but they do not eat at the table of the ordinary man.
Editor, why is this government perpetuating a practice that is corrupt and only benefits a few?
There is this official somewhere in Region Three who is a rice farmer and who claimed seven million in losses which was never converted to rice cultivation. There’s the man and wife that claimed three million each by going and registering losses in two different NDCs.
There are ways to help the ordinary man but will the government listen?
If the government gives each household a sort of food stamp that’s worth say minimum two thousand dollars will this not be of some sort of help to the ordinary man who is not a farmer or miner or fisherman?
Let’s suppose we have four hundred thousand household that will amount to eight hundred thousand dollars and for six months 4.8 billion.
How many billions have been spent and it has not touched the ordinary man?
And it does not have to be two thousand nor six months.
At least this will ensure that money is used for the purpose it is intended and not pocketed or misused and at the same time it benefits the ordinary man who is feeling it at his table.
Is anybody listening…and no it is not coming from the opposition.
Yours truly,
Contributor

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