Kwalbe, a lecturer in the Department of History, Kaduna State University, gave the advice while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday.
The lecturer pointed out that more than half of the country’s population were structurally poor, with many people born into poverty and might continue to live in perpetual poverty. He, however, said that the programmes, except for the conditional cash transfer programme, were designed only to cushion the effect of poverty and not to address poverty itself.
He explained that social protection covered the range of policies and programmes needed to reduce the lifelong consequences of poverty and exclusion. “As such, the Nigerian social protection programmes should be humane, comprehensive, and continuous in line with global best practices and not the current sporadic model,” he said.
“It is absolutely below the African value system to have our aged parents, queue with youngsters and fight for pittance in the name of palliatives.