- Safiu Kehinde
Nigerian social media influencer, Martin Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has drummed support for the Corp Member who, in a viral video, called President Bola Tinubu a “terrible President”.
NPO reported that the corps member identified as Ushie Rita, had taken to her tiktok page @talktoraye to express distress over the soaring cost of living particularly as a youth corper.
The corps member, who claimed to have come under threat by National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) officials, stated that the economic condition is overwhelming for her especially as it is the first time she will be living alone.
Reacting in a post shared on X on Sunday, VeryDarkMan held that that the Corp member was right, stressing that the Tinubu’s administration has been terrible.
VDM called out the NYSC over failure to effect the pay of the N77,000 allowance increment as approved by the Federal Government.
“The person that called her is one of those people Fela Anikulapo Kuti sang about that suffering and smiling. They are all those people that it is there generation that put us in this place where we are.
“But I can beat my chest today that there is no way that person who called her is not corrupt because as a board member, let start with the money promised to Corp members. Are you sure you are not part of the people that collected the money and kept quiet?
“The government has approved increment of Corp members allowance but till now they have not given them that money.” He said.
The social media influencer further questioned the relevance of the NYSC scheme.
While decrying the rate of unemployment in the country, VDM reiterated that the Corp member is right about her criticism of the Tinubu-led administration.
He charged the government to proffer solutions to the challenges complained by the lady rather than systematically attacking.
VDM called for the introduction of electric vehicles to aid competition in the transportation sector thereby reducing the cost of transportation.
He also charge the government to engage telecommunication operators to regulate the cost of data.
“Secondly, I want to know the importance of Corpers in Nigeria for how many years now. You people keep having Corpers with no work for them to do.
“Everything the girl said in the video were all true. Is Tinubu not a terrible President so far? He is!t Where is the lie? Tinubu and APC literally carried the country and scattered everything.
“They are not going to do you anything. They will just systematically attack you. Already, you’ve been blacklisted and won’t get job for normal place but don’t worry, we dey here. If the going gets tough for you, you tried private sector and they don’t collect you, come we will find work for you.
“The girl said the right thing. A lot of us have turned cowards on social media. But what are we living for? We are not even alive at this point.
“See the price of fuel, rice, beans, garri, transportation, and data. We are not alive.
“Systematically now they will be planning to attack this girl. But is that the right thing to do? Instead of you people to listen to this girl and fix all those things she’s complaining about.
“She said Lagos dey smell,.make it scent. She said data cost, government should talk to MTN, they should look for a way to regulate it.
“She said price of transportation cost, oya make una find alternative. Bring electric cars that will frustrate the price of fuel in Nigeria. Let the land cost for electric cars be free.
“Look for solutions to those problems. Bring serious competition to the country for free.
“Una no want make people talk and una no want even bring solution.
“Una no want bad publicity but una no wan do well. So what do we do?
“She did not lie. So far so good, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu regime is a very terrible regime. The governors are not active, the ministers are not active, a lot of things are just crumbling.” He said.