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Political Economic system and Social Capital of Feeding The Poor, by Hashim M. Suleiman
Making the financial system higher and using the poor has way more inferior political capital than feeding the poor with billions of naira of their cash.
When election comes, a gainfully employed poor man is simply too tough to induce in comparison with a poor man who’s fed throughout his non secular holy month.
A greater financial system means extra employment alternatives for the poor. That, my associates, would spell doom to electoral bandits.
In the meantime, utilizing billions of naira from public coffers to feed the poor means hooking the poor unto opiated syrup that’s extremely addictive and tough to get rehabilitated from.
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Feeding the poor is music to the ears of political dacoits who’ll definitely exploit feeding the poor to amass extra political capital in opposition to subsequent election circles.
Effectively, the hazard will not be solely on the feeding itself however on its capability to restrict the considering of the fed. The fed turns into blind, daring and boastful and are ever able to combat these displaying them other ways. Weaning a child off its mom’s cholesterum is at all times a Harculean job.
Certainly, the political financial system of feeding the poor is at all times on the expense of the fed whereas the feeder continues to maximise politico-economic revenue of social bonding with the folks he cheats on.
We shouldn’t be stunned when subsequent election circle comes and luggage of rice, spaghetti and vegetable oil turn into the only level of marketing campaign rhetorics.
For now, there’s nothing as painful as satar hurar Badakkare.
Hashim Muhammad Suleiman, PhD is a Mass Communication Scholar
