Thread by @AishaYesufu

On January 1st 2012 fuel subsidy was removed and for me it was the best News ever! Finally, the govt was doing something right!
My support for the removal of subsidy was the reason I never joined #OccupyNigeria protest. I saluted the Nigerians that did
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I saluted the Nigerians that did, because for the first time, I saw Nigerians uniting and making demands like I have never seen before except during the 1993 elections
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I watched aghast as citizens were attacked and killed by security agents across the Nation and finally the reduction and compromise reached by government and NLC and for me it was all heartbreaking.
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Heartbreaking that the government did not know how to deal with citizens' demands and resorted to violence against citizens it was meant to protect and also heartbreaking that fuel subsidy was allowed to continue
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Many argued then that the people in government will loot the money that would have been used to pay the subsidy and I said to them. Why don't we fight the corruption and ensure the money isn't looted? Why fight against subsidy removal?
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We have severally in this country done things based on the corruption of the people in charge. We cannot continue like this
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Why is petrol subsidised? Of what use is Petroleum subsidy? Diesel that is used commercially is not subsidised. You subsidise luxury and do not subsidise the one with the more economic impact?
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Diesel is what is used in industries, used by big vehicles for transporting goods around the country. Yet it is not subsidised.
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Shady subsidy are paid. We saw the court cases of many subsidy paid for fuel that were never brought to the country. Fuel meant for Nigeria consumption taken to neighbouring countries at our expense
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The billions that are being paid for fuel subsidy that a person living in a remote village is not benefitting from should be used for infrastructural development that will benefit that person
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Why waste money on those who can get by? Government is subsidising petrol for my cars while someone in need of 5k medical help cannot get it. What kind of injustice is that?
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Nigeria is in a mess. We have gone past red. We are borrowing money to service debts. Our oil revenue is not enough to pay salaries. Cost of governance is increasing and citizens are slowly being killed by both hardship and terrorists.

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What is this fuel subsidy for?
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When Buhari came into power and said he had removed fuel subsidy and capped the price. Nigerians were happy and even when NLC called for protest Nigerians ignored them.
I had issues then with the capping. You cannot remove subsidy and have say in pricing

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Who caps the price of diesel or even kerosene? You cannot tell someone how to sell their product without you paying subsidy. You cannot have the same price in lagos and kano without you paying the difference in transportation
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Buhari's government kept lying that it had removed subsidy while paying it on the sly and when they were called out they said it was under recovery.

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Buhari's government fraudulently kept paying the subsidy they said they had removed and Nigerians are losing daily
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There should be total deregulation of that sector. Government should hands off. Sell off refineries even to the NNPC staff. Let them own the business and take care of their salaries and overhead. That way we stop the billions being lost
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Imagine we have a whole parastatal whose business is to set the price at which petrol should be sold. Really?
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It is at the initial stage of fuel subsidy that prices will go up. Market forces will bring it to where it should be. When govt controlled telecommunications, it was more expensive. They even told us that poor people cannot have mobile phone and we believe
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Buhari that said that anyone subsidising is a fraud and today he is the fraud in power
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If the downstream sector is truly deregulated we will save enough money to put us on track. By the time we put in action oronsaye report and properly tax big companies we will face the right direction even if we are not fully on track
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