Reno Omokri, a former presidential assistant, has said that the Nigerian economy may not be as bad as people think.
Nigerians claim to be struggling, but they can afford to spend billions on cable and data subscriptions to watch the BBNaija show, according to the political expert.
He bemoaned the fact that the money spent partaking in reality television did not produce anything beneficial but, rather, corrupted people’s morality.
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Omokri questioned if Nigerians were actually in need or merely felt entitled as a result of years of enjoying a subsidised economy and paying little to no tax.
Speaking via Twitter, he wrote, Omokri, “We keep saying Nigerians are suffering now more than ever, And to an extent, there is an element of truth in that statement. But look at the amount of money people who are meant to be facing an all-time high suffering are spending to vote for #BBNaija housemates. Nigerians spend billions of Naira weekly for data and cable subscriptions to watch Big Brother in 2023.
“Then we are spending further billions monthly on data and SMS to vote for Big Brother housemates. These billions of Naira are not going into anything productive. And yes, in an election year, politicians like myself will not mind courting votes from Big Brother adherents. But the truth is that what we consume mentally from that show does nothing positive to our mindset. Quite the opposite, it is corrupting our morals.
“And the billions we spend on data, cable subscriptions and SMS voting is called disposable income in economics. And if you study economics, you realise that hungry people have no disposable income.
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“So, I ask again, are Nigerians really suffering? Is our economy that bad? Or is it that decades of fuel and other subsidies, and paying little or no tax have just given us the mother of all entitlement mentalities?
“Nigeria has its own fair share of challenges. However, when you take everything into consideration, we are a blessed country more than we are a stressed nation.”
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