the nigerian government is clarifying its plans to end fuel subsidies after a seemingly off-the-cuff remark from the new president actually triggered panic buying at the pump and prices nearly tripled. during his inauguration speech the president declared the critical fuel subsidy gone. now his office says it will end by the end of this month. stephanie joins me from lagos. this caused panic. you can say with confidence this would have been a controversial move. but why did the government, or i should say the president himself, decide to basically say these words as opposed to understanding that look, this is going to have to be phased out in order to really avoid that panic? reporter: good morning, paula. so there s a few things here. it was an ad-lib moment from the president during this inauguration speech because we
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party. let s play another clip, this is trump his rhetoric, i think back to kind of burned out towns and his inauguration speech. but here is how his rhetoric on the campaign trail has already become more acopocalyptic. this is the final battle. everybody knows it. this is it. either they win, or we win. and if they win, we no longer have a country. no matter how hateful and corrupt the communist criminals, this nation does not belong to them. this nation belongs to you. and just from a substantive messaging perspective, that you could argue that trump s first presidential campaign it also had some apocalyptic messages about the industrialize is of small towns in the west.
to say that it has anything to do with his administration but he has a huge litmus test coming up this weekend, memorial day weekend in chicago is traditionally one of the most violent in chicago the three-day weekend, nice weather, usually as disaster when it comes to chicago violence it will be interesting to see how the police department reacts this is usually when you get overtime, cancel days off this is when you get all hands on deck and there is a new interim superintendent under mayor johnson so we will see how it plays out this memorial day weekend. is there a sense of optimism in the city? i think there is only in the sense that it s been on the priority for mayor johnson he set up a new office of community safety, the police there have been ããhe was very supportive in his inauguration speech last week. we will see what happens. this is an area where we will see how the police react.