Action Aid Nigeria Claims that 80% of Nigerians are not living on less than 1 dollar per day.

Action Aid Nigeria Claims that 80% of Nigerians are not living on less than 1 dollar per day.

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1. The Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria, Hussaini Abdu, noted that the conclusions of the poll are “too simplistic, as it did not consider the multi-dimensional approach to the definition of poverty. ” “The conclusions of the poll trivialized the true situation of poverty in the country and reduced it to responses from very few Nigerians with certain levels of privileges,” the group said. “The methodology of the poll is flawed and the report is misleading, especially to policy makers.
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3. Abdu further said, “The NOI report questions the method of applying Purchasing Power Parity, rather than calculate directly using the USD/Naira exchange rate when in fact this internationally applied method is tailored per country using Consumer Price Indices (CPIs) and gives greater accuracy and local grounding to the $1. 25 per day measurement per country. “The NOI Polls’ conclusion is not internally coherent.
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5. The report is not only misleading, it is are shocking to note that NOI could use a poll exercise to insult the poor citizens and cavalierly wave people’s suffering, misery and trepidation. ” “The poll interviewed selected adults who own mobile phones and did not profile respondents in other ways, such as occupation, gender, age and specific locations.
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7. He also said that the items listed as being eaten by the respondents, including bread, rice, spaghetti and noodles are out of reach for most rural and urban poor in the country, adding that the staple food in most Nigerian homes is mainly local food crops such as grains, made up of millet, sorghum and cowpeas in the North and tubers such as yam, cocoyam in the South.
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9. Abdu further stated that the report quoted an old National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, report, which was subsequently withdrawn. “The national poverty rate has remained static since 2004 and has not increased by 10 per cent as claimed by the NOI report,” he noted.
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11. He added that it is ridiculous for the report to state that most Nigerians now eat in canteens, pointing out that the concept of eating in canteens, restaurants or local food joints, is entirely foreign to many Nigerians.

Now the question Arises do you think he is saying the truth ?