Unionists Link Rising Crime, Suicide to Economic Hardship, Poverty

Unionists raised alarm over rising cases of suicide, crime, murders and mental illness which they linked to economic hardship and poverty.

Expressing concern over the hardship in the country, they charged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s led regime to address the scourge so as to prevent mass protests that could break out from any part of the country.

According to them, the country is sitting on keg of gunpowder which may blow up any moment as the masses are being pushed to the wall on daily basis with anti-masses policies.

In a media chat, Comrade Aliu Katsina, who refused the use of his union in print said, “although mental illness has always been happening among humanitt, but it has increased astronomically because of poverty, hardship and idlessness after weeks of hopelessness in getting payable jobs coupled with bitting hunger on daily basis.”

On her part, Comrade Hajia Hassan, during her chat with during event in Lagos said, “pages of our newspapers or listening to radio are all pointing to the fact that Nigerians are sitting on keg of gunpowder which may blow at any direction. It’s it unimaginable that some mothers who carried pregnancy for nine months and fathers are now hawking their children for sale to make end meet. It is painful to read that a father killed his 17 years child with shovel out of mere provocation? People are going about today in bottled-up anger because of negative governance.”

Though the menace of suicide and crime cut.across age, gender, and socioeconomic status, for long, but has grown to disturbing proportion, particularly, with the nation’s economic situation in recent times, that has taken most basic commodities beyond the reach of many Nigerians.