Senator Shehu Sani is the lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central at the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly. In this interview, he speaks on economic reforms of President Bola Tinubu, why he should pay attention to the hardship in the country, the role of the states, among other issues. JOY ANIGBOGU brings the excerpts: What are your thoughts about President Tinubu’s economic reforms, in view of the fact that Nigerians are suffering under the burden? There’s no president that has implemented a reform and become popular but public opinion will change when people start seeing the fruit of what they have planted and the fruit of what they have suffered.
You can’t implement a reform that inflicts hardship that denies people the basics, that is painful, for people to be applauding you. It never happened anywhere. It’s the risk that you have to take if you have to change the political economy and social direction of a nation.
The only reason that is needed is that reform should come with a human face. If you are reforming the economy it is about the people. It shouldn’t come to a point that before the food comes everyone has died.
It’s important that the president as he implements economic reforms should also pay consideration that people are suffering and sacrifice should be seen to be across the board. If the people cannot pay the school fees of their children, they cannot find something to eat or they cannot afford the food and life is terrible and life is terrib.