Buhari Weeps As Five Calamities Set To Hit Nigerians in The Coming Week

  

 

If the figures recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, indicating that Nigeria is in recession, is anything to go by, then Nigerians should be ready to embrace the worst in the coming weeks, Igweocha satellite has gathered.

According to various Experts, Nigerians should expect the following scenarios to play out in the coming weeks:

1. Upsurge in Bank Robbery, Kidnapping and Internet Fraud

Dr. Ona Ekhomu, an Expert in security matters, noted that when there is recession, there are job losses, there is inflation or hyperinflation.

He feared that disposable income will be limited in the circumstance, which has the tendency to raise the bar in both crimes and criminality.

“When you add insufficient disposable income from people, you have a very toxic situation, because even when things were good, we had a lot of criminalities, a lot of insecurity in the land. You can imagine what it would be now that the country’s economy is officially in recession,” he said.

Ekhomu, who is Nigeria’s first chartered security professional and President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria, AISSON, advised Nigerians to be more security alert, and do more to protect their assets.

He believes that with the present situation, not only kidnappers, but armed robbers, and terrorists, would be raving the land now.

 “There are also the fraudsters. There will be an increase of people trying to dupe others through BVN, cybercrime, and so on. I see a situation where banks would be targeted, because that is where the money is. Although, it has been a trend for a while now, but I think it is going to increase,” he said.

2.  Increase In Mental illness

Also speaking on the issue, a former National Commissioner with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senior Lecturer and former Head of Department of Sociology at the University of Lagos, Prof Lai Olurode, expressed similar fears. He said that the effects of the sociological implication are in dimensions.

“How is it going to affect, knowing already we have over 50 percent or more, of Nigerians actually living below one dollar a day.

“So, the bottom line is, what you need to exist as a decent human being would become very difficult for you to navigate to action.

“We have little money in our pocket; the purchasing power will be very low, and that will now create a kind of psychology imbalance and disorder.

“This invariably will send many people to mental homes for therapy and care.” He maintained.

3. More Marriages Will Break Up

Gbemisola Omoniyi, a Consultant Female Child Psychiatrist at the Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, appears to corroborate this assertion, when she stated that from the psychologist point of view, the recession will trigger loads of frustration, people’s apprehension and anxiety.

Omoniyi, noted that this will also cause people to become unduly hostile, because of the nature of the things happening around the economy.

“By the time you go to the market, everything is inflated. It appears that people are having a very difficult time.

“Eventually, on the family, there is a lot of anger, a lot of anxiety, people become unduly irritable. “The direct relationship, is the fact that things are a bit more difficult, and far above the means of the reach of the common man.

“Within the family, there is a lot of dissensions, a lot of fights occur; things you would not have argued about, make you argue. It affects people; people begin to worry a lot.

They are apprehensive. It eventually begins to affect their sleep and motivation.

4. More People May Contemplate Suicide

According to Dr. Alex Igundunse, a Socio-Psychologist at the University of Lagos, “it will create a lot of anxiety. This is because, that will get a lot of people thinking.

“Apart from that, it can lead some people right into depression, because if the economy is depressed, also trying to translate their thinking can lead to the psychological depression of some people, because it gives them hope, in terms of how they can quickly loose it and all that kind of thing. At the extreme, more people may contemplate suicide as a way of ending their problems.”

5. Announcement of Renewed Poverty

Dr. Adeyeye Arigbabuwo, current Chairman of the Association of the General Medical Practitioners, Lagos State, and a National Executive Member of the Executive Council of Health Care Providers Union of Nigeria, is no different in his views. He said that the summary of what has been declared, is an announcement of renewed poverty.

It is like telling the nation, “we are a very poor nation,” Arigbabuwo stated. “And what does that mean? It means we should be conscious of things happening around us and therefore, we should begin to adopt new methods of living, and begin to structure the way we even live as a family.”