Increase stipends to the poor during lockdown – Tinubu tells FG

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has called for increased stipends to the poor to cushion the effects of coronavirus.

This is one of the nine measures Tinubu proferred to tackle the virus that is ravaging countries across the world in his Easter message titled, ‘Tackling the Economic Challenges of Coronavirus’. “We must be ready to increase stipends to the poor. We do this by widening the net, substantially increasing the number of recipients of anti-poverty stipends”, he said.

“I proffer these measures not as some comprehensive solution. I hope these ideas spark needed dialogue about the ways we may need to employ to protect our nation from assault by the coronavirus”. He argued that government has unlimited ability and public duty to issue as much of its own currency as needed to quell shortage and buffer the populace from hardship.

“Fortunately we are not at the stage where we need to implement such strong measures; however, we should be preparing a response for that urgent moment may fall swiftly upon us”, the APC leader said.