There is no gainsaying the fact that the NLC is being hypocritical on their stance as regards fuel subsidy removal. As a matter of fact, I believe that their call for protest against the removal of subsidy was hypocritical considering the fact that they even supported and campaigned for a Presidential candidate who advocated for subsidy removal during electioneering campaign. It only shows that the NLC is not committed to principle and that they are only being a toothless bulldog that they have been as a result of their excessive romance with the ruling elites.
Beyond NLC talks, the Federal Government and, indeed, their apologists are being hypocritical on the arguments they are pushing in support of 300% increment in the pump price of PMS since the removal of fuel subsidy was declared. Their argument that it was only the rich people, not the poor masses with several cars that benefited from fuel subsidy and that the proceeds made from the removal will be used to make life better for the poor people are lies from the pit of hell.
Why must the general public be made to carry the brunt of the failure of the government to arrest the few rich sabotaging the subsidy on fuel? Despite the fact that kerosene and diesel have been deregulated with no subsidy on them for years, it has not translated into gains that benefit the Nigerian people directly.
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