A battered nation with ramshackle citizens
A dilapidated nation is the one that its citizens believe in some decisions or orders given by the government while ready to embrace it, and also displeases some (policies) depending on which benefits them. It was yesterday nigh that Nigerian State Minister for Petroleum Resources Kachikwu announced the complete deregulation of petroleum resources (subsidy removal) […]
A dilapidated nation is the one that its citizens believe in some decisions or orders given by the government while ready to embrace it, and also displeases some (policies) depending on which benefits them. It was yesterday nigh that Nigerian State Minister for Petroleum Resources Kachikwu announced the complete deregulation of petroleum resources (subsidy removal) in Nigeria, but in twinkle of an eye the announcement has taken effect earlier this morning.
Using a common sense of judgement, could any filing station get fuel from yesternight to today morning? Assuming for argument sake is possible for some filing stations that are near government refinery (such as Kaduna ) to get it, what would be the outcome if to say the government announced a reduction in the PMS price to a value less than N86.5? Would it take effect as it took over the nation earlier this morning? Also for the sake of argument those individual marketers, might possibility malign the situation (as they did) and change their litre to N145 just to usher their way to profit, why would the so called government filing stations (NNPC) sell it at that price? What the heck is this?
Let’s barge in to the federal government or the APC government, are these the kind of promises they made to Nigerians or the change mantra they yearn for? This isn’t the right time to remove the subsidy (as always say by Buhari) even if that were the right decision as suggested by some experts.
It is only less than one week that the fuel is available at government price everywhere in the country after a long time suffering from every angle by poor Nigerians that gave birth to APC Government. It should be something later, after things have stabilized at least.
Buhari should have conduct a public hearing or public address to his fellow countrymen and iterate the reason he concur with in adopting the subsidy removal that he is always against.
As a repercussion to the subsidy removal, everything now must inflate in price (transport, other commodities), and as a result of that, the government must accept workers demands of increase minimum wage, so as to cope with the harsh economic situation.
Lastly, I see little from APC Government level of commitment to fulfil the promises it made to Nigerians. How their government progress with full elderly persons (that ought to have rest) as ministers and very few are younger generation?
Yusuf Abdullahi Ahmad, Kano