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Fraudulent Fuel Subsidy: Naked Hardship Unleashed On Nigerians, By Chris Otaigbe

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At N250 per liter, before May 29, Nigerians believed, JUSTIFIABLY, that Mohammadu Buhari DEEPENED poverty on a scale UNPRECEDENTED; and PRAYED never to have such a HEARTLESS leader again.

That took eight years of a Buhari NIGHTMARE.
In less than 48 hours, the new president, Bola Tinubu MERELY mentioned ‘ fuel subsidy is GONE!’ in his inaugural presidential speech; and the HARDSHIP Buhari VISITED on Nigerian people in eight years, were DOUBLED in less than three days.
Please OPEN your MIND and REASON with me; as I walk you through the RENEWED DEMONIC agenda we are being CAJOLED to condone under this new government.
1. There is no and has NEVER been Fuel Subsidy in the manner NNPCL and its Experts make us to believe.
Otherwise, why is it that under Buhari administration alone, we were OFFICIALLY informed that ‘ Fuel Subsidy Is Gone!’
Ibe Kachukwu, said it as Minister of State, Petroleum Resources and Mele Kyari said it as GMD NNPC during the Covid wahala.
So, Tinubu saying it is NOT new.
2. Anybody who tells you that Dangote Refinery cannot sell fuel far, far, far, FAR CHEAPER to Nigerians is a LIAR and an ENEMY of the Nigerian people.
You know why…?
Whether using his JAGABAN bulldozing skills or not, as president, Tinubu CAN order NNPCL to give Dangote and every other private Refineries the QUANTITY of crude they NEED for their respective Plants; to supply Nigerians at DOUBLE DIGIT price ( to say AFFORDABLE is ambiguous. That is why I use the PHRASE double digit).
3. Are you TELLING me that Tinubu, (whose daughter has now APPROPRIATED the national leadership of the market women in Nigeria to herself, illegally) does not UNDERSTAND that ANYTIME fuel subsidy is REMOVED by ‘MOUTH’, prices SHOOT UP at fuel filling stations across the federation within minutes; while its CONSEQUENTIAL impact on the cost of goods and services becomes UNBEARABLE to Nigerians?
4. Back to Dangote Refinery and the NEED to ensure it is made to FAVOR Nigerians.
Suddenly, some bad minds are already saying the 650kbpd cannot satisfy Domestic consumption AGAIN! Chaiiii! Naija!!!
It is a LIE oooo…
To justify the over N500 per liter template, an NNPCL official said the current price will STEM cross border STEALING of fuel from Nigeria.
That is the same IMBECILIC argument Buhari and governments before it used to INCREASE fuel price each time.
Please ask yourself… Does it make COMMON SENSE for you to BUY fuel from Dangote Refinery that is LOCATED in Lagos State at a MINIMUM of N550 per liter, when for over eight years you were BUYING fuel imported from WHEREVER (because we are NEVER told where they import the fuel from) outside Nigeria at less than N300 per liter?
I know the DUMB and CRIMINAL response they will tell you is…
1. Subsidy has been REMOVED
2. Dangote is a PRIVATE refinery
3. Government is no FATHER XMAS
All three defense are SPURIOUS!
Again, I maintain…
1. Already Dangote Refinery must be enjoying some WAIVERS.
2. The President CAN, with or without the National Assembly DECLARE a state of emergency on the Downstream sector; DESERVING of opening the nation’s Crude Oil Tank for Dangote and other Private refineries.
The Objective…
To ENSURE Nigerians buy fuel at DOUBLE DIGIT price.
Anything else other than this is a BLANTANT LIE! It is CRIMINAL and UNACCEPTABLE!
You see what I have been saying about Tinubu…
Everybody knows that the Oil industry as managed by the NNPC is HIGHLY CORRUPT; and any President that MEANS well, SHOULD first EXPRESS his DISGUST at the corruption going on there.
I am NOT aware that Tinubu EVER denounced the NNPC for its corruption which became legendary under an INCOMPETENT Buhari government.
So, I am not SURPRISED that he has taken sides with them in FURTHER PUNISHING Nigerians.
They are now beginning to MESS with our brains using their media foot soldiers to ACCEPT and SWALLOW the NEEDLESS ‘bitter pill’ as they always say.
Guardian’s frontpage headline today…’ *11 years after occupy Nigeria, Tinubu toes painful path to economic rebirth’* is quite poetic.
The bottom line, here, is that eleven years after the Mass Protest against fuel subsidy removal under Goodluck Jonathan, Tinubu is TOEING a MORE PAINFUL path capable of creating WORSE economic CRISIS and IMPOVERISHING Nigerian people.
Another media kite they are flying around is that the SUFFERING, Nigerians are going through now, is for the SHORT TERM.
That is another SCAM!
From Olusegin Obasanjo to Buhari, (EXCEPT Umaru Yar’Adua, the SAINT among these BAD LEADERS), remember the lie they always told us…
Prices will be HIGH in the short term and also, that the money SAVED will be used to DEVELOP basic infrastructure.
The current World Trade Organization (WTO)’s boss, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala used to say it in such a SEXY manner, the IGNORANT believed her, as then Finance and Coordinating Minister under Obasanjo and Jonathan governments respectively.
While both administrations had some FINESSE, the Buhari government was so CRUDE and BRUTISH.
That Buhari’s crudity is the path Tinubu is TOEING today.
Then, they are now talking of Palliatives.
Is this what the World bank $800 million loan is meant to come and PALLIATE?
I hope Tinubu will not be DUMB enough to join the outgoing Finance Minister in agreeing to DASH an unidentified FACELESS 50 million poor Nigerians a monthly stipend of N5k.
If he falls for this, then know that jagaban would not only have made good his promise to CONTINUE Buhari’s SENSELESSLY PEOPLE-PUNISHING legacies, he would established his own BRAND of TORTURE for further EMASCULATION of the Nigerian masses.
If you ask me, I am NOT sure there is HOPE for Nigerians under this government; at this rate.
In conclusion, let no one DECEIVE you with ANY technical jargons; of REFORM, DEREGULATION, RIGHT-PRICING and all the LIES they FABRICATE with good grammar.
As we say in Nigeria, ‘ ALL NA WASH!’
In the end, the HARDSHIP Tinubu has FOISTED on Nigerians less than one week into his presidency is better IMAGINED…
Unfortunately, it is the GRIM REALITY he is FORCING you to FACE today!
So, it has left the realm of imagination.
What will Tinubu tell the millions of Nigerian Parents who may not be able to FEED their families, or send their kids to school any longer?
What will he tell the millions of Nigerian Youths who would LOSE their jobs to this UNHOLY and HEARTLESS increase in fuel price?
What is he going to tell over 100 million Nigerians already in MULTI-DIMENSIONAL POVERTY, who may now no longer have food to feed their families?
He is making out to look like he is trying to repair the nation’s security agencies and architecture; but by his removal of fuel subsidy and the effect we are all FEELING right now, he is INCREASING INSECURITY in other areas.
He has increased INSECURITY; in Jobs, food, health, education and so many areas of our lives in the country.
Only a FOOL will FALL for the Lie they are SPINNING today.
‘Without food in your stomach or the ability to MOVE from one place to the other, let me see how and where you will find the ENERGY to RESIST my policies; whether you like them or not.’
From Conspiracy Theory Oracle (CTO), this is the THINKING behind this curiously COURAGEOUS announcement to remove subsidy.
I hope and pray my CTO is proved WRONG.

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