Quote from: Jenwi on December 10, 2023, 06:47:41 PM

In my own candid opinion, I disagree with this so called fuel subsidy removal. Standard of living was better during the era of fuel subsidy. It was better when public funds were misappropriated and Embezzled. Let them eat the money and allow us to buy fuel at a subsidized rate.
Imagine since the inception of this subsidy removal dating from 29th of may 2023, I have been unable to run my power generating set (generator) due to high cost of fueling. I now buy Ice block to cool my drinks since I can't use generator to power my refrigerator In my local grocery store.
The one that shock me again is that port Harcourt to owerri I used to pay a total fare #1,500 from my residence to mbaitoli in owerri, I now paid a total amount #11,000. This is disheartening.
When I fuel my motorcycle with #1000 just to go and buy something, I can't use that fuel for the next day because I will be having empty tank. My church generator always shuts down during service since we can't afford sufficient fuel.
The one that anger me the most is that, the so called palliative which was meant to cushion the effect of the subsidy was not evenly distributed, what got to my locality was one cup of rice for one person, I learnt that two bags of rice was given to our chief, he reserved one bag for him and his family and then share one bag to the whole community he also had share from this one bag meant for the community for himself again as though he has collected before. Just the same way he reserved one for himself I know that is how everybody that had come in contact from that top(federal) had been stealing, hiding and reserving for themselves. What a country.

I know where you are coming from as is biting hard on Nigerians big time. Your discussion have mainly 2 believes 1. People who believed is justified and 2. People who believed is not justified, which I belong to. Whichever believe one belongs to I believe they can defend it. Let me talk about my believe.

Let's start by asking ourselves what subsidy is, it is a premium government pays to augment price of of goods and services in other to bring down the price for citizen to access them cheaper, which is part of government responsibility to its citizens.
Inasmuch government has told us fuel subsidy is a scam, the question we need to ask is ''how is it a scam''? because if you already knew the problem to fuel subsidy, which is scam, then why not address it instead of removing the subsidy
Some people will say is not easy to eradicated the corruption going on in the oil sector but the truth of this matter is that government owns all these ministries and parastatals governing these sector so are we saying government can not control what it owns?
My own take is that government is not ready to do what is right for citizens, they chose the convinient way out but when it has to do with them in governance they will defend it with their blood. When a governor in the south west was sworn in and discovered the level of corruption in the civil service he decided on his own to stop it and put lots of controls in place to curb those excesses and today their citizens are enjoying better dividends (most especially roads) that many governors before him failed to do.

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