How Canada annoys – fuel price

Now, if it were not for that clarification, I would never have known that people would dare to call Africa’s most respected president such horrible names. It would have been funny if it were true, but except on one occasion when he visited the UK, I have never seen the president without shoes. I’ll be […]

Now, if it were not for that clarification, I would never have known that people would dare to call Africa’s most respected president such horrible names. It would have been funny if it were true, but except on one occasion when he visited the UK, I have never seen the president without shoes. I’ll be surprised if Ebele buys his shoes from Aba. Those who think shoes make a good president should ask Indira Gandhi.
How could a man whose luck hides him near adversity to catapult him to prominence be clueless? President Jones has survived the worst political, economic and military scandals of any known presidency – pension fund scam, fuel subsidy scam, NNPC missing billion dollar scam, even the lexicographical scam in which stealing differs from corruption. Pin one of these scams on Obama and he’ll be losing more than parliamentary majority.
Compare the Chibok abduction saga with the Iran-hostage crisis as Bastard Okugbe would want us; 300 children disappeared in one night with America knowing and our military bosses rushed to town saying they’d been rescued. They later denied their statement without apology. Our president did not sack anybody for lying, because apparently lying is different from not telling the truth. Nobody has put him to task over these issues. In fact, as commander in chief who presided over the death of over 10,000 of his citizens, he is confidently seeking re-election. Stephen Harper or Barack Obama must feel they are in the wrong seats. But is Chibok a scandal? Sorry guys, in Naija, – it is called a distraction.
It is January, one of those months when it is difficult to forget the Occupy Movement. Presidency lapdogs could have called the movement imperialism; after all it began in North America and somehow wafted through social media into Naija. Occupy Naija started in 2012 after this government gave a New Year bonus of 120% increase in the pump price of petroleum products. For the wicked doing the counting, it would be the umpteenth time since Yardy became the first president to reduce fuel pump prices. I am from Kogi which produces nothing except presidential donations leading to mass layoffs and executive accidents.
The caveat is necessary before somebody finds out that Kogi does not produce oil – or does it? We have been told by head brigand Asari Dokubo that we should keep our pens and mouths off debates on oil and how it is used, especially by an Izon president. I know people who would dare to contest this, but, I would not join them. Not even when people try to provoke me by saying that the only oil well we could have been managing has been taken over by Anambra State.
Now, long digressions like this make readers forget the purpose of the write-up. Let’s therefore not go to how the oil money has been managed because a man is free to spend his earnings as he deems fit. I hear that the transformation agenda has produced more cassava, more rice and more yams. This is why stomach infrastructure is now a directive principle of state policy. But Canada does annoy because it also produces oil. I wouldn’t know if a Canadian contested the OPEC presidency with Madam Globe. If they did, they lost and said nothing about it. But that’s not the annoyance. The pump price of petroleum has been going dancing kpalongo all over the world. Usually, people like us eking out a living in foreign lands should never concern ourselves with oil prices except that we have been going to the pumps with pain in our hearts and less dollars in our pockets.
That was until the recent slide in the pump price of the commodity. Imagine pulling up at a fuel station anywhere in Canada with your usual ration in mind only to fill your tank and still have change left to buy groceries? The first time it happened, I thought I was dreaming. But it has been consistent for weeks. I need to return home soon to the only country that defies the laws of gravity. Petroleum price in Naija is teaching the world that what goes up does not comes down. One more reason to give Dr Jones another four years.