Days after the inaugural speech of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during which he announced the suspension of fuel subsidy, diverse reactions have continued
In Osun State, Governor Ademola Adeleke has already set up a task force to checkmate hoarding of the commodity and inflation of prices.
There must be something to cushion the effect of the removal. He just made the declaration that he is going to remove the subsidy without adequate provision to ease the experience. It will be tough. We are all citizens of this country. On the issue of subsidy removal, I also kept telling people that it would not be the gain of Nigerians if the government does not subsidise fuel. We don’t have water, good roads. It appears Nigerians enjoy nothing apart from the free air from God.
Tinubu should rather sit down and think of alternative ways of doing things and not in this harsh way.Of course, we know that the prices of fuel and transportation would also move up. Where are we going? Already people are suffering and you are adding more to that suffering because you want to run a government.As a minister of God, we keep on praying for them. The situation in Nigeria is very sad, very bad.The issue of subsidy removal, for me and most other Nigerians, is long overdue.
He could have stated the process by which he planned to cushion the effect on the people without announcing outrightly that subsidy is no more. He quickly needs to reel out his plans to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal, maybe in terms of increase in salary or reduction in cost of food stuff.
There is no doubt about that. Unfortunately, we in the media did not interrogate how he was going to do it. He has won the election and he has decided that it must go. Because till June 30, the federal government will still be subsidising and we still have enough PMS that can take Nigerians for the next two months. Why are we now having such a scarcity?
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