What Tinubu govt.needs to do before removing subsidy on fuel---Concerned Nigerian..

By correspondent in Lokoja.

        Mal. Mohammed Hassan. 

A concerned Nigerian in Lokoj Kogigi state, Mal. Mohammed Hassan urged the new administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu to put in place strategies in place before implementing the removing fuel subsidy policy.

Hassan, who gave the in an interview with the Correspondent of The Reporters iLokojaja on Wednesday on the n heels of the scarcity of fuel, so this was necessary to ease the effect of the policy on the masses.

Hassan, a sociologist, who also is a businessman, said the first step for the government to do would be to block all areas where the cabres(fuel marketers) benefit unjustifiably to the detriment of the masses.

He also called on the Tinubu-led government to take a critical look at the policy before implementing it.

"No matter how good a policy is, there are usually people who will always want to sabotage it for their selfish interest.  These are the unpatriotic ones the present government should take care of before implementing the policy.

"Government should ensure a steady supply of fuel to take care of the saboteurs naturally. and regulate the amount of fuel going out of Nigeria to the neighboring countries to check the short supply of the product to local consumers.

"Once we have an adequate supply of fuel, the people will have cause to patronize black fuel marketers.

"There should also be efforts geared towards reopening borders to enable foreign goods to come to the country and open it to international competition, adding that prices of goods and services would come down while boosting local production should be intensified.

"What causes inflation in Nigeria is that what we have at home is not sufficient to take care of our local needs, then there is no need to close the border," he said. 

Our correspondent reports that though panic buying of fuel has eased in Lokoja considerably, the scarcity of the product continued as of the time of this report on Wednesday just as many filling stations locked their gates against motorists in anticipation of the new price regime of the product.

Edited by Dada Ahmed.