Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy Removal - Masses Paying for the 'Sin' of the Rich

28 October 2011
opinion

The Federal Government has been insisting that the reason it wants to remove the fuel subsidy from January next year is that only a few people benefit from it, but not the general public. This excuse seems lame to most Nigerians and they wonder why wouldn't the government stop the so -called fat cats from feasting on what belongs to every Nigerian.

However, this is Nigeria where 'fat cats' are hardly prosecuted, besides, the government is refusing to name the people because of whom they are meting out revenge on hapless Nigerians.

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