 Alakristen and Muslim clerics has cautioned 36 state governors against diverting the two billion Naira given to each state by the Federation government to caution the effect of fuel subsidy removal on the Nigerian citizens. They gave the advice over the weekend in cabinet charging governors to ensure that the funds are used accordingly for social and economic growth for interests of all Nigerian masses not for personal use. The Christian Association of Nigeria Cabinet State Chapter Rev. Dr. Joseph Hyab says the economic hardship that the citizens of the country are going through cannot just be solved by a mere palliative noting that diverting it will add to more changes, challenges and stare citizens against government. 100 trailers of rice. It will still be diverted. At the end of the day, many people in the community will not even get off to one modu of rice. So what palliative are you talking about? You're just promoting another form of criminal stealing or promoting hunger in another form. So I think governments are supposed to think what do we do to change the lives of our citizens? What do we do to improve the welfare of the community than all these things? By asking someone to buy grains and share to people, how many times have the grain really go to the people? The grains will still come. We knew what happened in the previous administration and some people in Nigeria were benefitting. Where are they? And we still have those people begging all over the street. We still have people see for of course you receive every day from people who tell you that they didn't eat yesterday. They don't even have one naira. So they just need 1,000 naira. 500 naira is all they're looking for. And you're talking about palliative. What is that? So can we find something that will better the citizens, better the community, better our people? And then we... Also, Cabinet of States, Islamic cleric, Imam Hussein Makajala says fairness, equity and justice should be done in sharing the palliative to the vulnerable Nigerians' urgent government to punish any officials caught diverting what belongs to the poor masses for personal gain to be dealt with. They should not distribute what they are, this palliative, in a way that some community will say that they didn't bring anything into house. Some community will say, ah, we thank God. The government is doing well when they are not doing well. They should not distribute this palliative in a, in a biased way. They should do, fellow governments have done their own parts, but it's the left to the governor to do the justice. They should share this palliative in a justice manner. Can he imagine that in the next six months, everybody who wants to go to work in Kaduna will not pay one dime. He will just go out of his house and they'll be very good to take him to work too and for his own going to pay a cover. The economic empowerment of that person who goes to work without paying money will be higher than the palliative that is here. Seeing that people who feel sick can no longer, will no longer buy drugs in the next eight months or six months, whether if you are sick when you just go to hospital, as far as you have a particular identification, you'll be given medication. The money will be given to chemists, the money will be given to some private hospitals. We will now turn it to our advantage. So if we had improved services like transportation, medication, education and others, what palliative? Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.