NIGERIANS MUST "GO FORWARD" IN SPITE OF HARSH FUEL PRICE DEREGULATION!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 5. NO 143. 15th May, 2016.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIANS MUST "GO FORWARD" IN SPITE OF HARSH FUEL PRICE DEREGULATION!

Patriotism which is an attitude of deep love for one's country should be cultivated with an understanding that leaders in government would always seek the welfare of the citizenry through sound economic policies and judgments not predicated on selfish interests or avarice! On Wednesday 11th May, 2016, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), announced an upward adjustment from N87.00 to N145.00, which turned out to be a total removal of subsidy by government on the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS or Petrol), since it was not even captured in the just signed 2016 Budget; but 99.9 per cent of Nigerians were not actually surprised because they had always agitated for regular supply of the product even if they had to pay more! Not surprisingly, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, ( IPMAN)    Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria ((PENGASSAN), and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), had welcome the new price regime and promised to cooperate with government by ensuring regular supply of the products and selling not beyond N145.00 across the nation. But the National Assembly, (NASS), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), which were privy to government's plan to expunge the subsidy had been very diplomatic in condemning the price hike and promised to take appropriate action like organized protests!
WE MUST WARN THE GOOD CITIZENS OF THIS GOOD NATION THAT THE PRICE FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE COULD BE PAINFUL AND ENTAIL GREAT SACRIFICES/HARDSHIPS, BUT IN THE LONG RUN EVERYONE WHO PERSEVERED WOULD BE BETTER OFF IN RESPECT OF THE GOOD DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY!  FELLOW NIGERIANS, PLEASE ENDURE AND FOREBEAR! SHUN ANY KIND OF ORGANISED  PROTESTS BY NIGERIAN LABOUR CONGRESS AND TRADE UNION CONGRESS BAND WAGON WHO DWELL IN OPULENCE AND COOL COMFORT BUT WOULD USE THE POOR MASSES AS PUNS FOR THEIR OWN GAINS BY INSULTING THEIR SENSIBILITIES! HOW MANY OF THEIR MEN DIED IN PROTESTS THEY ORGANISED IN 2012 WHEN JONATHAN'S ADMINISTRATION PARTIALLY REMOVED FUEL SUBSIDY? NONE OF THEM DIED! WHY WOULD THEY PROD YOU TO DIE FOR THEM TO ENJOY YOUR DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY ALONE? GOD FORBID! AMEN?

In our Volume 3. No. 82 of 08-03-15, titled," Petroleum Subsidy Is A Monumental Fraud Against Nigerian Masses", we discredited government policy of forcing the masses to painfully pay for their deliberate dereliction of duty by failing to build more crude oil refineries.

In another edition of Vol. 4. No. 123 of 20th December, 2015, we published another Newsletter titled, “Nigerians Must Swallow The Bitter Pills Of Total Fuel Subsidy Removal In 2016 To Save The Economy", having researched deeply to finding a lasting solution to that recurrent issue which has outlived all governments of Nigeria - military and democratic! Below are some excerpts from the 123rd Edition
"Corruption in Nigeria is a Hydra-Headed Monster that must be attacked and destroyed not by government alone but by all patriotic citizens who should be determined to resist the temptations and allurements of illicit monetary gains that could be manipulated to turn them into accomplices by unfaithful operators in the various sectors of the economy! Since the determined effort by the new leadership to recover all stolen and embezzled funds by officers of past administrations, lots of billions of naira have been recovered through probes and investigations while some were voluntarily returned into the Treasury through plea-bargains
".......but the biggest head of the monster that urgently needed the full support of all patriotic citizens to be cut off and destroyed is the total removal of illegal payment of Petroleum Products Subsidy which had been the most daring robbery of government treasury since the turn of the new millennium!
" THIS SUPPORT WILL TURN OUT TO BE BITTER PILLS, BUT IT IS OUR FERVENT BELIEF THAT IF QUICKLY SWALLOWED AT THIS OPPORTUNE TIME, NIGERIANS WOULD IN THE SHORT AND LONG RUN ENJOY FULL BENEFITS OF THE DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY UNDER A RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT BUHARI

"APC had very good intentions for good governance which prompted the leadership through its flag bearer, President Muhammadu Buhari to promise:
2. "That the massive corruption and impunity of the past 16 years of PDP governance would be wiped off..!
4. "That PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ( premium motor spirit or petrol and kerosene to consumers without continuous payments through the largest corrupt drain-pipe of the outlandish FUEL SUBSIDY PAYMENTS which gulped about SEVEN TRILLION NAIRA in four years (2011-2015), according to recent World Bank Report on the state of the Nigerian economy!
"SINCE GOOD INTENTIONS WOULD NOT AMOUNT TO GOOD GOVERNANCE, ALL NIGERIANS SHOULD READ THE  HANDWRITING OF PRESENT ECONOMIC REALITIES AND CO-OPERATE WITH APC MANAGEMENT TEAM TO SWALLOW THE BITTER PILL OF THE TOTAL REMOVAL OF FUEL SUBSIDY PAYMENT ROBBERY INTRODUCED AS PARTY PATRONAGE BY PDP FOR THEIR CRONIES, ONCE AND FOR ALL IN 2016! "

Prophet Moses, the deliverer of the tribe of Israel from the 400 years bondage of Egyptian's servitude at a critical stage of his divine assignment was sandwiched between two unacceptable options - either to move on and perish with his contingent in the deep Red Sea ahead of them, or remain static, be recaptured and taken back into slavery, by the angry and violent Pharaoh-led Egyptian Army, which had encamped behind the over two-and-a-half million frightened vulnerable men, women and children! Going through the biblical records in Chapter 14:15-16, of the second Book titled Exodus (Greek word which means, "outgoing"), the LORD told Moses:
"Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel that they they go forward: "But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea." The scenario above clearly depicted that God could not be separated from the affairs of men because He owns them and everything in creation organic/inorganic; and would always intervene to ensure that events worked out according to His purposive Will and that His world was not overrun by evil persons at any time!
In obedience, "Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided."(verse 21). President Muhammadu Buhari is the Moses of our time! He has been divinely prepared for such a time as this to rescue the over 80 per cent of Nigeria's impoverished citizens from the few neo- colonialist predators who had enslaved them through selfish grip on all sectors of the economy since independence in 1960!
1. Why is the Power Sector still comatose? Because the importers of all electric generating sets in Nigeria are the economic saboteurs and their cronies in government establishments where management decisions are taken!
2. Why would Nigeria fail to build more crude oil refineries but depended on importation of finished products from abroad? Because the importers are people in positions of authority who shape economic policies to favour payment of fraudulent subsidies which had virtually run the economy aground!

It has taken Buhari 31 years to get back to the saddle of power to accomplish the divine mandate of setting up a righteous government since he was chased out of office and later incarcerated during his first outing in 1984/85! Buhari could decipher the economic challenges to know exactly what panacea to introduce at every point! He met on ground an almost empty treasury and immediately opted for the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which would proffer better accountability. He exposed the terrible corruption in the Oil and Gas sector and promptly identified the controversial issue of payment of subsidies on petroleum products as the worst of the conduit pipes through which lots of foreign exchange reserves were stolen unnoticed and having paid off the "outstanding subsidy debts" in 2015, braced up for frontally attack the monster by cutting of its head through total removal of the rougish subsidy to allow for free market price regime that would eliminate product scarcity permanently.
Nigerians are all aware that they were being ripped off through payment of petroleum products because in spite of the deal they always suffered to acquire the products all year round! When NUPENG OR PENGASSAN did not strike over some frivolous demands, the Tanker Drivers Association or Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) would hoard the products and create artificial scarcity in order to earn more illicit money! Why was is so difficult for consecutive Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Administrations to diversify the economy from the mono-crude oil product to agriculture and solid minerals extraction; entertainment and tourism industries which are abound in all 36 States of the federation?
Because the money bags who made free illicit monies through allocation of OIL BLOCKS which constitutionally belonged to all Nigerians, had flooded local markets with foreign goods of all categories from foods, to cosmetics, exotic wines, jewelries, farm products like rice, beans, millet, corn, potatoes, oranges, guavas, paw-paws, coconuts and cocoa-related confectioneries like chocolates and sweets, candies, electronics, clothing’s for all category of peoples, motorcycles, tri-cycles, cars, buses, lorries, exotic jeeps, with laundered monies from illicit sources of drugs, oil thefts, gambling, prostitution, stolen subsdies etc. and Nigeria became the dumping ground for all foreign unwanted foreign goods at the expense of the Nigerian industrialists and manufacturers local products!
With this bold step by Buhari to take up the gauntlet and "GO FORWARD" with the total removal of the fuel price subsidy as commanded by God, the nation will eventually take its rightful place among the 20 economically-viable comities of nations even before the year 2020!
Let all hands be on deck to destroy the cancerous wound called fuel subsidy and march with assurance into the Promised Land! IT IS NOW OR NEVER, FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER AGAIN FOR NIGERIANS! AMEN. TOTAL DEREGULATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO PETROL SCARCITY AND FILLING STATIONS QUEUES.IT IS THE BRIDGE WE MUST CROSS NOW!

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066   g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.