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President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed concern at the famine in Somalia, and pledged that Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States would make appropriate responses at the forthcoming pledging conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on August 25, 2011.
A statement from the State House on Friday quoted Jonathan as speaking when former Ghanaian President, Jerry John Rawlings, who is also the African Union High Representative for Somalia, came to brief him on the situation in Somalia, and seek a response to the conference.
While describing the famine in the Horn of Africa as worrisome, he said African leaders must take action to help the unfortunate situation.
My question is this? are we as a country satisfied and already feed to be thinking of feeding others? a yoruba adage says and i quote 'ile la ti n ko eso ro de'. If as a country blessed with everything to make life comfortable, majority of her citizens still lives in abject poverty, then the world should be looking for a way to help us and not the other way round
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