Some Adamawa State residents have rejected rice distributed by President Bola Tinubu to cushion the effect of hardship as a result of fuel subsidy removal.
The residents who accused the President of inflicting hardship on the country with the removal of subsidy on petrol, also alleged that the rice being distributed was either spoiled or substandard.
The Adamawa residents on Tuesday staged a protest after the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza had distributed 500kg bags of rice to 1,000 beneficiaries in the state.
Bishop Mamza, the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese who thanked Tinubu for remembering the poor in the rice distribution, had revealed that the rice palliative was sent from the Presidency to be distributed to indigent CAN members.
But the beneficiaries argued that the rice which was packaged in sacks bearing President Tinubu’s pictures was a mixture of black and brown grains.
“For God’s sake, they’re giving us this spoiled rice just because we’re poor people, right? No problem, there’s God,” one of the beneficiaries lamented.
Another beneficiary asked: “You mean these people are callous enough to serve us this rice that looks more like animal feed?”
Another person, Johnson Abana, said, “I don’t think the President has seen this rice. I can only suspect that someone within the corridor of power may have short-changed both the President and the people.”
“This is ungodly, wicked and evil! Yes, it is evil to mock people with bad food just because they’re poor,” he added.
