It made the declarations at the launch of a report entitled: “The Ignored Pandemic: How Corruption in the Health, Education and Water Sectors is Plunging Nigerians into Poverty.’’
It states that 10.7 per cent earned between N201,000 and N300,000 per annum while 12.5 per cent earned more than N300,000 per annum. According to the SERAP Report, 79 per cent of people living in poverty relied on personal wells or boreholes for water supply. It also noted that 4.2 per cent of people living in poverty had not received any direct poverty alleviation donation or support from the government in the past one year.SERAP declared that in spite of the absence or inadequacy of learning tools and infrastructure, people living in poor neighbourhoods believed that good quality education was provided in their schools.
And they wonder how we got many bandits and criminals.