What the f*** are you talking about?

But much remains to be done. Therefore, it is our collective responsibility to reflect as to how best we can get rid of this massive burden of crying poverty, ignorance and disease which still afflict millions and millions of people in our country. There are differences about measuring poverty, and I am not going into that. It is the general consensus that during the first three decades of our independence, despite major achievements, the proportion of people below the poverty line declined very little. Since then, there has been a decline though people who are below the poverty line. I accept that the people below the poverty line are our primary concerns and, therefore, the identification problem is important but it is only the beginning of