The previous Senior Particular Assistant on Media and Exposure to ex-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, on Thursday, mentioned Nigerians aren’t feeling the affect of the gas subsidy removing.
Akande insisted that Nigerians aren’t benefitting from the larger income gathered from the gas subsidy removing.
The previous presidential aide disclosed this all over an interview on Channels Tv’s Dawn Day-to-day.
Consistent with Akande: “The verdict of gas subsidy, that was once the verdict that was once taken on the Federal degree, the president got here and mentioned that subsidy is long past.
“Such a lot of folks mentioned this subsidy has grow to be a monetary burden to the government, the folk on the grassroot are being impacted through that call from the government.
“I’ve no longer noticed the type of actual exchanges of the affect of those subsidy. Now there is not any extra subsidy, there’s cash within the arms of the president and governors however wager what, the folk aren’t benefitting from the larger income.”
Akande questioned why there is not any punishment and penalties for the ones concerned within the gas subsidy rip-off.
He famous that the ones concerned within the gas subsidy rip-off must be made to stand justice.
Akande added: “The rip-off of the subsidy that has came about through the years which all of us agreed is a rip-off, no one has been referred to as to pay for it, there’s nonetheless impunity, no penalties, the deficient and commonplace Nigerians are nonetheless those maintaining the tip of the stick.
“And those are the problems we want to press in, the place is the good thing about the rise in income? Individuals are complaining, the place is the justice of the individuals who scammed Nigerians for years? Why is it that both the ADC, NDC, APC no one is speaking about justice? Why don’t seem to be we punishing the ones individuals who perpetrated the rip-off?”
