Wale Igbintade The Youth Party (YP) has expressed its opposition to the removal of fuel subsidy without any form of social safety net to cushion the impact and protect the
The Youth Party has expressed its opposition to the removal of fuel subsidy without any form of social safety net to cushion the impact and protect the poor in the country.
The statement also urged the federal government to partner the public transport and interest groups like the Nigerian Labour Congress and the National Union of Road Transport Workers to ensure that the removal of fuel subsidy does not affect the poor. “Most importantly, we believe that subsidy on fuel should be gradually removed within a space of six months to one year to mitigate the impact on the poor.
The party in a statement issued at the weekend by its National Publicity Secretary, Ayodele Adio, stated that subsidy on fuel ought to have been gradually removed within a space of six months to one year to mitigate the impact on the poor. It added that Nigeria cannot justify spending less than a trillion on education and health respectively last year, but spent over N4trillion on fuel subsidies.
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