N3,000 daily is enough for average Nigerian — Reno Omokri

Former statesmanlike adjutant and ambassador-designate to Mexico, Reno Omokri, has said an mean Nigerian tin past connected astir N3,000 a day, arguing that the outgo of surviving successful Nigeria differs importantly from that of the United States.

Omokri made the remark on Sunday while appearing connected Channels Television’s Politics Today, wherever helium discussed poorness benchmarks and the rising outgo of living.

According to him, helium precocious travelled done Nigeria with a writer and, without information personnel, stopped astatine assorted locations to cheque the prices of indispensable nutrient items, including yam, rice, maize and fruits.

“I went determination with 1 journalist, nary security, and I stopped on the way, and I priced goods. I priced yam, I priced rice, I priced maize, I priced fruits. In Nigeria, radical tin unrecorded connected that magnitude successful a day,” helium said.

Omokri contrasted the concern with the United States, saying that attempting to unrecorded connected the equivalent of N3,000 per time successful the state would magnitude to poverty.

“But successful the United States, if you tr...