Philip Agbese, a house of representatives member, says the federal government must provide relief packages for Nigerians to cushion the effect of the removal of subsidy on premium motor spirit (PMS).
In a statement on Wednesday, Agbese said ending the subsidy regime is not enough, and called for an investigation into how subsidy funds were expended in the last eight years.Agbese was elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress and represents Ado/Ogbadibo/Okpokwu constituency of“Tinubu has begun reforms in the petroleum sector, the security sector and even in the economy,” he said.
“I agree with the removal of fuel subsidies. For us, just to remove subsidy is not enough, we must provide palliative at one end and at another end we must ask questions about what took all these monies [spent on subsidy] in the last eight years.“If we have all agreed that the existence of the fuel subsidy in the last eight years was actually a fraud, what happened to our money, Nigerians are asking.
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