Popular abroad based Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie, has expressed deep concern over the suffering and hardship that Nigerians have to endure.
Chimamanda Adichie stated that the suffering of common Nigerians is her top concern, pointing out that many middle-class people are now resorted to begging as a result of poverty.
Adichie while speaking Channels Television stated that a successful government is measured by how the citizens are faring.
“Life has become so hard in Nigeria, and I can see it. For example, people who were formerly kind of securely middle class, not that life was rosy for them, but they got by, are now people who beg and are in need. That worries me greatly,” Adichie said.
“The level of suffering, how expensive food has become… I think the biggest political judgment one can make is about the lives of ordinary people.
“People talk about the stock market. Personally, I don’t really care about those sorts of things. What I care about is: that person earning minimum wage, how is that person getting on in this economy? It’s the suffering that worries me the most. And it’s terrible,” she added.
According to Chimamanda Adichie, this might be extremely harmful to society because people who previously would not want to engage in particular illegal or wrongful activities will now voluntarily do so in order to survive.
“It’s not to excuse crime, but I think when life gets very hard, even people who before would not have considered certain things suddenly are willing to, and that’s dangerous to society,” she said.
