A former President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, (MAN), Sam Ohabunwa, has berated the President Muhammadu Buhari’s led federal government for its inability to regulate the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), saying the situation had brought an untold hardship to Nigerians.
Ohabunwa, who was a former Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2023 general elections, also faulted the FG’s proposed plan to end fuel subsidy by June, saying, “It is deceitful and disingenuous for this Government to announce that payment of subsidy will end in June, when they would have ended their regime. Why wait? Why make such a deceitful proposition? Who will enforce the plan; Buhari/ oil minister, or the new President?”
He further urged the Government to come clean and level-up with the citizens instead of what he called deceit and hanky-panky game with the citizen’s commonwealth and well-being.
“To allow only NNPC to be importing while removing the price cap after paying subsidy is profoundly confounding. The current situation is deeply damaging the Nigerian economy; increasing poverty and misery for many Nigerians, while creating a lot of opportunities for arbitrage and corruption for NNPC and government officials.
“President Buhari should bite this bullet and save Nigerians from the multiple jeopardy that they are facing right now. It is true that we have lost the battle against corruption; but we must not watch helplessly as poor Nigerians are openly ‘raped’ and ravaged by the oil curse”, he stated.
