Artificial and wicked fuel scarcity: It is time to challenge the cabal

The civil society, in the face of apparent weakness or indecision of the labour movement, ought to rise up now and fight the cabal to a standstill. We must resist them steadfastly. It is immoral and illegal for a group of people to intimidate a whole country for their rapacious ends. True we may have […]

The civil society, in the face of apparent weakness or indecision of the labour movement, ought to rise up now and fight the cabal to a standstill. We must resist them steadfastly. It is immoral and illegal for a group of people to intimidate a whole country for their rapacious ends. True we may have no government or have one that is in cahoots with the shylocks, but the people own the land and the resources. If we say No to their disreputable and ignoble methods then NO it must be. We need to embark on a campaign of civil disobedience. We must refuse to cooperate with government and the cabal in our humiliation. Let us close the country. If the government won’t do its duty let us shut it out by all lawful and necessary means. This is our country; it is not theirs alone. Our timidity has not helped.

It is really awful that all we hear from NNPC is that they have stocks that can last for so long, rather than fishing out the people foisting scarcity on us all. True, by not making the refineries work the government lays the original basis for scarcity and so cannot really be expected to be part of fishing out and dealing with the cabal. But cannot the so-called image makers of the corporation learn to keep silent when they have nothing useful to say. We have been taken for granted for so long. We have been docile for so long. It is time to call for a general strike in the truest sense of those words. We cannot continue like this and claim that we have a country. NO. I hereby register my willingness to participate in and initiate any march that will prove to the shylocks that this country belongs to us. It is time to wake up from our docility.

Bamidele Aturu & Co.  24, Mbonu Ojike Street, Off Ayinde Giwa Street, Off Alhaji Masha Road, Surulere,  Lagos State, Nigeria