Prof Usman Yusuf, a member of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has taken a swipe at the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, saying it has turned to hopelessness.
Speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, the former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, accused the Federal Government of injecting hopelessness into the people instead of most needed hope capsules.
According to Yusuf: “People have lost hope. It pains me to see our people lining up to collect cups of palliatives. Renewed Hope has turned into hopelessness. People have lost hope.
“The last one year has been a year of nothing but deception, destitution and hopelessness.
“From next week, they will start telling us their propaganda. What have they done to benefit the ordinary people?
“In a span of one year, they have brought millions of people back into multidimensional poverty, they have pushed millions more children out of school because their parents cannot pay their school fees.
“The economic team, to me, looks more like tax collectors than economists. Taxation does not grow the economy; only production does.”
