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Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Nentawe Yilwatda, has blamed poor organisation for the food queue stampedes recorded in parts of Nigeria during the 2024 Yuletide season.

Yilwatda, who was a guest on Channels Television’s 2024 Year-End Review, said food queue stampedes were not only limited to Nigeria but have been recorded in advanced parts of the world like the United States.

“Stampedes have taken place in more developed countries than Nigeria,” the minister said.

“If you recall, Hurricane Katrina in the US, when they had food distribution because of poor organisation, they had stampede.

“Also, in the school food distribution in Texas, in the US, the same thing happened. It has happened in several countries that are more developed than Nigeria where you have poor organisation.”

In December 2024, three major food queue stampedes were recorded in Oyo, Anambra and Nigeria’s capital city Abuja. About 70 lives were lost in the unfortunate incidents which many have blamed on hunger and the high cost of food. The private organisers of the food distribution programmes have been detained by the police.

The humanitarian minister boasted that the Federal Government is the biggest distributor of relief materials to the poorest of the poor in Nigeria. He said the government distributes relief materials more than private individuals yet no stampede has been experienced in government programmes.

Yilwatda encouraged private persons willing to donate relief items to Nigerians to get the proper organisation right and seek the ministry’s help.

https://www.channelstv.com/2024/12/31/food-queue-stampedes-not-limited-to-nigeria-happened-in-us-minister/

And so🙄🤨🤔

What about the good things that happen in the US that you do not emulate?

These are the clowns that the so call 'technocrat' Tinubu fills his cabinet with?

In other words, if you want to distribute anything, hand it over to government officials to do it as they get the job done without occurence of stampede or death

omo oro mi ma lo sah, ti ile batimor ma pe dealer mi

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What the fuhck's a 'yilwatada'?

Jeezuzpick:
Like this post if you have never heard this ministers name before.


What the fuhck's a 'yilwatada'?

They always look for ways to justify wrong doings and bad things in comparing with other nations.

They will not compare the benefits and good things other progressive nations are enjoying

Unnecessary comparison

Nigeria is not only fantastically corrupt but......

Shamelessly, hypocritically and fraudulent entity.

Office.

He wants people to donate what they want to give to the public to the ministry so they can distribute them. No one knows the millions that have benefited from government relief distribution. The internally displaced people camps fund mismanagement come to mind.

The only problem here is people want to be seen doing good. They want a public show and that has to be controlled.

Getting a list of people they want to assist and making financial gifts to either their s or cash handouts without throwing up an event would solve this.
There is lack of trust between the helpers and the helped. If they want them to buy rice, they might end up buying garri.
Noone wants to help you with your needs. They only want you to have what they want to give you.

Clap for yourself na
It baffles me at how the humsnitsrisn ministry has consistently been headed by inhuman women. Someone who is supposed tu have resigned is here comparing corn with coral beads.

Everywhere there is free things, it's human nature to rush there and want to get more than the other guys. Hence the reason for stampede.


USA own is usually drugs/fentanyl.

If you are sharing free fentanyl, they will rush you.

Their comparative analysis with other countries is always hinged on negativity, they carefully exclude all the good deeds worthy of emulation and hold on to one negative incidence to claim parity with successful nations. It's a shame.

How foolish can this person be?

When it comes to failure, we start competing with western countries, but speak of success anf they will tell you Nigeria can not be compared to these countries

😜

Na greed and selfishness dey kill them!

Now is the time not to compare ourselves to any country, but to find ways of making sure such nonsense does not happen again.

As you are comparing the negative aspects, to compare the positive aspects too like uninterrupted electricity, good roads, standard Healthcare, security, etc.

You are quoting Hurricane Katrina as a major cause of food shortage in a sane clime. Right, so what was the cause of food shortage in Nigeria without a natural disaster. Ok, Hurricane Tinubu I guess 🙄

I really wonder!!

If that is the case, why then did you criminalize it?

Then release those that were arrested

Don't forget to compare our standard of living

They won't tell us how these countries enjoy 24 hours electricity a day. How the citizens are well taken care of health wise. Good road network and others. But once they mess up they will start their negative comparisons

We always compare ourselves with the worst cases,never the opposite.

Well done, Mr. Minister! Now, let's take a look at how our country's minimum wage stacks up against the US.

Mumu talk...

So observing their bad thing is what you guys always go their to do?

What of the numerous good things they have been doing there, why can't you emulate that?

I knew this useless defense was coming from the useless istration


Yoruba Muslims are all over the internet saying there's no hunger in the country, people die everywhere for different reasons

These were the same people who trouped out in mass to "save" Nigeria from Jonathan for increasing fuel price to 145 naira

immortalcrown:
What about the good things that happen in the US that you never emulated?

They are forbid to emulate good things.

wunmi590:


Mumu talk...

So observing their bad thing is what you guys always go their to do?

What of the numerous good things they have been doing there, why can't you emulate that?

what concerns Tinubu with observing good things about America

Trump won't collect a dime from office this year

Tinubu can never emulate that
he will use 8 billion for only traveling this year


Thieves in Aso rock

Ok.
We know but govt should take the responsibility of not enacting a law that will obligate organisers of food distribution to do it accordingly.