Your report on fuel subsidy is revealing. What is deregulation? Deregulation means that the government will cease to control the refineries, depots and pipeline network

Fuel Subsidy War

Your report on fuel subsidy is revealing. What is deregulation? Deregulation means that the government will cease to control the refineries, depots and pipeline network. Under such system, the refineries, depots and pipeline network will operate as profit centres. For deregulation to work, a country would need to have such functional facilities or infrastructure. If you don’t have all these facilities in place and you go ahead to remove subsidy, you are inviting chaos.

Alaehie M. Chimezie,

Owerri, Imo State.

The astronomical hike in the price of fuel from N65 per litre to N141 per litre was most heartless, unreasonable, and insensitive to the plight of Nigerians. This is the first time any government would, by a single fiat, increase the price of motor fuel by more than 100 percent under the pretext of removing oil subsidy. The fuel increase announced at a time Nigerians were wishing themselves happy new year, shows that the federal government is more interested in fostering poverty rather than transforming lives, and Nigerians should brace up for tougher times under this regime. Even the dictatorial military regimes of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha were not so mindless of the plight of the common man. The Jonathan administration has clearly shown that expectations of the electorate in its administration were naïve and misplaced.

Babatope Babalobi,

08035897435.

In the UK for instance, they still have pounds land shops (one-pound shops). In those shops, you can buy half- dozen crates of drinks and practically any item for just one pound. Do we have any such provision for the less privileged in Nigeria? Why is it only when it comes to the price of fuel that our government wants to measure up with advanced countries? Talking of comparison, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, should tell us if she ever used a generator to power her electrical appliances since her stay in the United States of America as a World Bank staff? In Nigeria, the reverse is the case. Our lives are practically run on generators. We depend on generators to pump drinking water, cut our hair, watch the news, read our books, and do the simplest of things. By implication, the cost of living will sky rocket and become unbearable. Economic chaos plus calamity, untold hardship and crime are the obvious consequence.

Zik Gbemre, JP,

If oil subsidy is not removed, Jonathan would go down in the history books as the weakest president in recent times.

Odudu Umoh,

Unical, Calabar.

Child Witch Scam

It is unfortunate that Nigeria is bedevilled with evil practices due to sheer ignorance and lack of efficient and transparent leadership. The culprits must not go free. All those found culpable should be punished.

Jonas Egem,

Owerri, Imo State.

Pension Scam

The National Provident Fund, NPF, as stated in the story, seems a plausible scheme, but was destroyed by mismanagement. Nigeria is a failed nation; we must have the courage to admit it. Every facet of the nation’s life stinks.   

 Stephen Asuquo Udoh,

Surulere, Lagos State.