"Subsidies are about resource allocation internally within Nigeria. So Nigerians, the people of Nigeria pay for these subsidies:" So says Abebe Selassie, the Director of the IMF African Department, while speaking at the ongoing IMF and World Bank spring meetings in Washington DC, as reported by Sahara Reporters. Selassie is confidently saying gibberish!
The Socialist Workers League (SWL) has berated the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government for increasing electricity tariffs by 200 percent for Nigerians amid the rising inflation and high costs of living in the country. SaharaReporters had reported that the Nigerian government approved N225 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour tariff increment for Band A electricity consumers in the country.
The Socialist Workers League (SWL) has called on all organisations of oppressed Nigerians to start networking robustly and prepare for the new uprising against the effects of the neo-liberal policies of President Bola Tinubu's government. The group noted that the recent protests against hardship and the high cost of goods in Minna, Niger State and Kano, Kano State were the beginning of mass actions like never before against Tinubu's "poverty and hardship policies".
I have just read a statement by Kayode Fayemi, the smile-looking former governor who failed to grow and develop Ekiti for eight years, saying the Occupy Nigeria in 2012 was political and wrong on the Uprising Against Fuel Subsidy Removal. As usual, Fayemi's statement follows the words of state agents speaking to stop any public anger tommorow whether on the #FeesMustFall; #LetThePoorBreathe Strike by NLC; or even if Obi-dients finally summon courage and #Sorosoke after Tinubu is rigged in again at the courts.