Clean gist

By Jacinta Fidelis
This week on clean gist number of interesting issues graze our page.
The comic discuss by senior citizens on the choice of foreign rice at the setting of Nigeria’s very important National dialogue forces clean gist to wonder whether this set of delegates understand clearly the enormity of the stake at hand; If they are well aware of the true state of the nation or whether their concern lies only in the state of their stomach.
Also the recent information that Nigeria’s economy is the highest growing economy in the continent, backed with the very interesting question from one of our source; seeking the relationship of that with the price of fish gave clean gist a very interesting bend to the topic.
More so the recent story that the official writer for the Nation’s insurance health scheme plans to revitalise the sector makes it necessary for clean gist to bring the issues begging for concern in the area to bear.
Lastly the drama that ensued during the passage of the latest financial allocation for the country was something very interesting for us at clean gist and certainly for our ardent readers. This and other issues made the day on clean gist this week.
Rice from the china shop, national diet
Yes this first topic was indeed triggered by a rather dramatic and certainly funny discussion that took place at the National discuss of our time. The story has it that our set of a specially prescribed representatives at the national discuss, decided to make issues of stomach relevance a matter of top priority, the subject matter tabled for deliberation therefore was the inclusion of a foreign kind of rice in the dialogue menu for the nation’s discuss. In fact the rice suggested is that emanating from the china shop. Indeed the Chinese have not only worn our dear country over with the choice of their generating set to our powerful sources of electric energy.
The fact that our country with all of its resources still relies solely on generated power supply is not enough headache for this able leaders of our dearly beloved Nigeria. No! The choice of food will also be made with special reference to this ocean tigers.
And thus this set of national discussants relegates the all important issues craving national attention for a topic on foreign kind of food for themselves as menu at the National discuss.
How much is fish in the largest economy?
Next on our agenda is the latest pleasant bombshell of our time. Clean gist watched with vigor how the news went round that Nigeria’s economy has topped that of its counterparts in the continent. A noble colleague anxiously popped the question from clean gist initiative when it asked how that affects the price of fish.
At clean gist, we continue with the list of question: does that provide in any way for the teaming population of unemployed Nigerians? Or are these youths just going to fold their hands and watch while an economy booms without feeling its effects?
Does that mean a more stabled power supply for the people in all sets of the society?
Does that mean that the young Nigerian at 18 can soon start hoping of having legal access to sources of living? Even before graduating from tertiary institution?
Does that mean that those in the Nigerian civil service, but private and public sector will stop witnessing the season of salary failures at the end of each working season?
Does that mean that fuel and kerosene with other petroleum products will become more available in the market?
Does that also mean our leaders will stick their necks out, for a change to make things even better?
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Is that a new signal for greater attempts towards pen robbery by whoever can try?
Is that another phase in Nigeria’s stream of nightmares?
Indeed is this yet another lie waiting only to be unraveled?
Insurance revitilisation, and health issues
Yes a story on the national tabloids about Nigeria’s health insurance revitilasation promised by the secretary general of the sector caught our interest at clean gist, although the focus of the topic, as stated by the man, was to ensure that the facilities for the agency was not diverted. Clean gist thinks it is high time the moral and legal rights of the benefactors of these facilities became a mater of equal importance to the agency. A visit to government hospital will certainly disclose that the right of fair treatment for health insurance facilities in the nation is treated with much less concern than ought to be. The way and manner this people are treated at hospitals has made it quite necessary to wonder whether the insurance schemes have a nick name like a suffering mechanism.
Yes the intention for creating the scheme was to alleviate the suffering of Nigerians and it may be doing that but the process requires further arrangement for future diversion of the agency from clean gist's cradle.
Budgetary debate, an argument or an argument?
Our last story emanates from the raging battle ion the nation’s leadership of political parties.
The budget proposal analised earlier on this page was not without its own face from the political episodes of our time. According to our source, it was gathered that the various issues tabled for discussion on the nations’ budgetary allocation went quite smooth until it got to the time for the money on the national discourse of our time. Clean gist gathered that the amount which totaled at N7 billion raised quite an eyebrow in the house. But what made greater interest was the fact t that the set of people in the opposing end are not just those from a random setting but the members of the opposing party. What a set you may say. At Clean gist, we say the set differs only in name but are quite alike in spirit. Or how else will one explain the fact that the figure slated for consideration by these people was unanimously increased without any one raising a point of order? If that discuss on the increase in sum did not cause controversy, one then wonders why the same topic that has raised inter-party controversy at its inception will again become subject of controversial debate in the budgetary analyses.