Festus Keyamo: The States And LGAs Are Responsible For Multidimensional Poverty

@NigerTrimp’s responded to @Fkeyamo’s earlier tweet with the tweet below….

Festy, under your watch over 130 million Nigerians became multidimensionally poor and unemployment rate rose to an unprecedented level.

The records are there in public space.

@Fkeyamo then responded with a quoted tweet…
Thanks for your comments. For the first time, let me educate you and millions of Nigerians about this ‘multidimensional poverty’ that the opposition has been harping on to the deceive Nigerians.

It was our government that consciously commissioned that study and DELIBERATELY released the results. Why? Because, ‘multidimensional’ poverty relates to people not having access to the basic necessities of life like clean water, primary health care, primary education, accessible rural roads for commerce, etc. However, these are outside the constitutional obligations of the Federal Government.

They are the responsibilities of sub national governments like State and local governments. The report was published in order for citizens to demand more accountability from those levels of government and to highlight the fact that tackling poverty needs the cooperation of different stakeholders and not just the responsibility of the Federal Government.