Stand up Nigeria, SUN, has described subsidy as
fraudulent construct by cabals in government and the petroleum sector to aid
them rob the country blind and pleaded with the President not to revive it.
Members of SUN during their protest in support of
the fuel subsidy removal, in Abuja. The National Secretary of SUN, Comrade
Sunday Attah while presenting a speech at the office of the secretary to the
federation, in a peaceful protest in Abuja, yesterday, declared that Subsidy
Corruption came to a deserved end after it became glaring to the present
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who was brave enough to damn the
consequences and pull the plug on the complex life support system that has
sustained this criminality to the detriment of other sectors, adding that it
should be buried.
“We are in a hurry to bury Subsidy Corruption even
before it is certified thoroughly dead because we do not want to risk the
cabals bringing in experts from the organised labour and compromised experts
from the CSOs to revive an evil that is best dead.
“This abomination should be interred before it
reanimates and cause further damages in our land. Our sincere hope is that the
other productive sectors of the economy – education, health, transport,
manufacturing and others – can now thrive with the death of Subsidy Corruption.
Its death has ushered in an era of citizens taking more interest in governance
and demanding accountability”, Attah said.
Confirming that talks are ongoing between
organised labour and the Federal Government and that labour has demonstrated
unrivalled ability to revive Subsidy each time it is killed, the group appealed
to President Buhari not to give room for Subsidy Corruption. “No blackmail
should make the government revive this monster.
Nigerians want subsidy payment and the corruption
it typifies buried forever without the possibility of it resurrecting again.
This outing today confirms to Mr President that Nigerian Civil Society Groups
welcome the removal of subsidy. “We want to be free of the fraudulent groups
and individuals that had hidden under it to feed fat to the detriment of the
rest of the population.
Please Mr President on no account should Subsidy
Corruption be revived. This appeal is especially against the backdrop that a
few members of your cabinet have been promoting the idea that it was foreign
currency support that was withdrawn and not subsidy”, he said. Members of the
group bore a casket showing that fuel subsidy as a monster is dead and will
remain in the grave forever.
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