A lot of Nigerians have expressed their anger (and rightly so)
over the planned disbursement of the $322 million recovered from the loot of
the late Gen. Sani Abacha to 302,000 poor households in Nigeria
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As the argument of those opposed to the
planned disbursement goes, it appears unreasonable to just take out money and
share out to people that did not work for it.
For them it makes no economic sense when that
money, amounting to about N115 billion, could be invested in tangible projects
that will generate revenue for government, employment for the youth and goods
for the household. Some of the opponents of the policy have even gone ahead to recommend
psychiatric tests for the government officials that proposed the disbursement
on the grounds that it looked rather insane to share out money in that fashion.
