Tuesday, 18 February 2014

The Kerosene Subsidy Scam

The massive looting of Nigeria’s resources is directly responsible for the state of embedded terror today. Why does Nigeria’s NNPC under Diezani Alison-Madukwe have kerosene sold to the people at $150 per liter, while claiming and keeping a subsidy on the 10 million liters sold per day at N40.9/liter, that enables the stealing of N100+/liter from the poor, through her handful of cabal portfolio middle-men marketers?

With the subsidy scam that several political cabal have shares in, the Goodluck administration scams Nigerian masses of $10 million every day!

This $10 million stolen daily would go a long way to curing terror in the north east once and for all.

Late Yar’adua banned the subsidy scam, his quick death as he went after processes the greedy ruling politicians used to feed fat and sponsor terror, caused panic among the Obasanjo establishment. Yar’adua had overturned the illegal sale of Nigeria’s refineries to Dangote by the Obasanjo administration, and as he sent several directives to stop the subsidy scam, the ex-president ran helter-skelter to see how to get rid of Yar’adua. Yar’adua’s illness took a sudden turn for the worse, and several close associates of his have relayed that he suspected he was poisoned with his food and had the Obasnajo kitchen staff he was still using, fired for fear that they may have poisoned him.
A report also states that his wife feared he may be poisoned. When the Goodluck Jonathan government took over, the senate abandoned investigating his death.

The looting of $10 million per day in the subsidy scam has continued and so has terror. $10 million looted by Diezani and co everyday can buy 10 Armored Personnel Carriers (APC’s) every day. In a recent barrack that was sacked in Borno and had its army wives raped and children slaughtered complains were made of there being only a single APC to defend the barrack. Most of the equipment Nigeria’s military still uses, was purchased since the Shagari regime. The looting governments do not give a damn about equipping the military; rather they arm and equip terrorists to defend their political interests. This topsy-turvy running and ruining of the state is the reason why we are in the current predicament and our people are dying like chickens.

The 10 million the government steals everyday through the illegal subsidy scam could buy 500 drones everyday to ensure that the terrorists are spotted as they dare to drive their convoys into town, and APC’s can block their route and send them to the great beyond. But rather than stop stealing and protect the masses, these greedy officials will keep dipping their hands into the people’s pockets to steal N100 per liter of kerosene so their kids can fly around the world in private jets and flaunt money in public. Diezani has insolently insisted that she will continue to ‘steal’ billions form us via the subsidy scam, regardless of presidential directive, which she says she can disobey.

$10 million stolen everyday by the Goodluck administration in this scam can provide social security and welfare for the people in each state of Nigeria, starting from Borno, through the entire states, investing just one year, 12 days at a time, state-by-state. The people will be happy, victims of terror, kidnapping and armed robbery will be compensated, there will be security measures including police helicopters and drones to provided additional security and trace and track down terrorists and bandits, and Nigeria would be a happy land. But rather than do so, a handful of the ruining class, decide to steal this wealth which ultimately sponsors terror in Nigeria. 
The government is even so desperate; they steal from Almajiri’s (beggars) as has been exposed in the budget which includes Almajiri education projects with grossly inflated rates. [See: “Federal Ministry of Education has planned in its 2014 budget to spend N950 million on the construction of a single block of three classrooms” in article: “Why steal in the name of Almajiris?” by M.U. Ndagi in WeeklyTrust of 8th February, 2014]. And these are the Almajiris we are trying to support to dissuade their recruitment in terrorism.

The kerosene subsidy scam must stop yesterday! All the middlemen marketers who aided and abetted the oil minister to steal N100/liter from Nigerians for 10 million liters per day in this fourth kleptocratic republic must be arrested along with the above-the law minister. These thieves are at the root of terror in Nigeria. It is time to put an end to economic terror and the political environment of terror in Nigeria! It is enough. #NoToChancing

Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]
Email: drbrimah@ends.ng Twitter: @EveryNigerian

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