A former Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Ambrose Aisabor (rtd), has said that President Bola Tinubu should be commended for mustering the courage to remove fuel subsidy.
Aisabor stated this in a telephone interview without a reporter in reaction to the recent subsidy removal
He said: “It is a known fact that fuel subsidy is a scam, and the federal government has not been able to deal with it while it has continued to pay subsidy for imported petroleum products, especially Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).”
“Past administrations did not have the courage to deal with the subsidy problem”
“So, the president under the present administration should be commended for his political will in removing the fuel e subsidy.”
According to him, the inability of the federal government to come up with palliatives to cushion the effect of removal has rubbished the good intentions behind it, adding that the effects of the removal have now dawned on Nigerians and the government.
The AIG said it is disappointing that of all that the government has proposed to do to ameliorate the effect on the populace, nothing has been said or concluded about the refineries that are not working.
He said any measure being proposed without discussing the functionality of the refineries will be a barren exercise as well as an economic suicide.
He lamented that the Dangote refinery, which many Nigerians saw as a game changer in the oil industry, has now become “the more you look, the less you see,” as the refinery that was hurriedly commissioned in May this year is yet to start production.
He, however, called on the president to put machinery in place to recover all the monies fraudulently collected during the subsidy regime because Nigerians want to know those that were involved in the scam.