A cross section of stakeholders in Enugu State have urged President Bola Tinubu led administration to urgently provide palliatives for Nigerians to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal.
They made the call in Enugu on Tuesday while reacting to the President Tinubu’s nationwide broadcast to the people.
Some of the residents who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said they supported the fuel subsidy removal but regretted that the governments were not doing enough to alleviate the sufferings of the people occasioned by th
Analyzing the president’s speech, Mr Tony Odukwe, a development expert, said the president spoke very well but added that he should back his plans with action.
According to him, President Tinubu should use the N1 trillion he saved from the subsidy removal to alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians by providing the necessary palliatives he mentioned in his address like provision of buses.
Odukwe urged the president to ensure that the farmers grants got to genuine farmers and advocated that produce for exports should be processed before exporting in order to create jobs and wealth.
Other residents, Mr Emma Ejim and Comrade Cyprian Okeke, who also called for immediate provisions of palliatives, said that the distributions should be monitored to avoid diversions.
”It’s more than two months since the fuel subsidy was removed and nothing has been done . People are hungry and suffering because of consequences of the removal,”.
They stressed the need to use part of the money saved to revive refineries in the country rather than refining crude outside the country.
