The former Chairman of Isu/ Okoma Ibadan branch Jerry Chijioke Uzor has called for the restoration of fuel subsidy saying that the removal is not sustainable and lacks benefits to the masses but to the Governors of each state of the federation .
Jerry who spoke in Ibadan in the midst of the clarion call for the restoration of subsidy explained that though he initially supported it’s removal but with what has been happening now he does not see the reason why fuel should not be subsidized.
According to him” all over the world, government always subsidized one item or more in order to make life easier and meaningful for it’s citizens” noting that with the current situation in Nigeria he does not see the reason why this should be different in the country.
He explained that the subsidy removal has not been a benefit to the average man or the masses instead has made money concentrated in the hands of the Governors who do not manage it well.
” The funds which ordinarily should be used for the provision of essential amenities such as roads, electricity and water by the state Governors are not used for these purposes adding that rather than do these, the Governors used it to better the lot of their relations and hangers on at the detriment of the generality of Nigerians”
He disclosed that ” in my house, I do not talk about provision of electricity anymore by government as I do so by myself while I equally provide water through the drilling of boreholes in my home”
Uzor stated further that even in his country home of Isu, Ebonyi state, there is no pipe borne water while the roads are not motorable just as everyone has to provide electricity for himself or herself.
He said further that the cost of provision of fuels for his cars for operation is even becoming difficult if not impossible as he has had to spend around seventy five thousand naira every weekon the purchase of fuel for his cars to ensure that they convey him and his staff and wife to their work places and shops.
