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THE OSUN STATE STORY (YOU DO NOT GIVE A MAN FISH YOU TEACH HIM HOW TO FISH)

Osun state was the first state to declare that it owed salaries and couldn't pay its workers.
Osun state had been feeding children in public schools for months spending a huge chunk of its allocation on food and catering for school children. Now osun state is broke. It can't pay salaries. Those who believe in the model of capitalism obviously could foresee a situation like this.

When Margaret Thatcher was prime minister and started privatizing government owned institutions, Britain cried out and protested against it. Today they are better for it. They still have some problems but they are singing songs of prosperity. They are a prosperous state.
America runs a capitalist economy model. They have programs for social welfare but they generally do not feed their citizens. They create opportunities and the machinery for citizens to feed themselves.

We cannot run a government by feeding people. We must use our resources to create opportunities that will enable people work, earn a sustainable living and take good care of themselves.

Let our technocrats invest in research to create economic activities that our people can live on. There are poor people but the way out of poverty is fruitful labour.
It is an emergency. Other nations are towing this part.

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