OpEd: Tinubu - Strategic Moves Or Shooting From The Hip? By Dr Malcolm Fabiyi | Sahara Reporters
His inaugural address was no ordinary salutation to the citizenry. He came out, guns blazing.
Between signing bills, Mr. Tinubu made time to authorize the suspension of Godwin Emefiele the CBN governor and Rasheed Baw, the EFCC Chairman. If the criticism of the Buhari regime was that it suffered from a crippling and debilitating slowness to act with urgency and purpose, Tinubu has demonstrated the opposite tendency - a readiness and willingness to act. It took Buhari over 6 months to name a cabinet and address any of the myriad problems he met when he took office.
While it is too soon to call the results of the game, some of Mr. Tinubu’s actions are a cause for concern. Let us get something clear - Nigerians appear unanimous in their view that fuel subsidies have been an avenue for crass and massive corruption. Every major candidate vowed its reform. While on paper, the idea that the Nigerian masses should benefit from a resource that they have been abundantly blessed with makes sense, successive governments have failed to make it work effectively.
In 2012, Mr. Tinubu was one of the leading opponents to the removal of fuel subsidies by then President Goodluck Jonathan, declaring at the time that “” In the ensuring decade since that declaration was made, Nigeria’s economy has worsened, its unemployment rate has grown and if there was ever a time that people needed support from some sort of social welfare program, it is now.
If there is a metric that demonstrates how little regard Nigerian governments have for the future of our young people, it is what we commit to their education. The Tinubu government has no moral authority to say we cannot afford to continue supporting our public schools when we do not even yet spend enough on them. Now they are proposing public private partnerships as a panacea for the low funding issue.
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