According to a statement he released yesterday May 19th, Tinubu said President Buhari acted right by removing subsidy from oil.
President
Buhari after carefully weighing the options decided to do what is
right. In an act of courage he removed the oil subsidy thereby freeing
the downstream component of this strategic sector of the economy from
the distortions of price fixing. However,
this decision was not to be a step toward conservative austerity as
practiced by the former government. That government simply wanted to end
the program that they may prove obedient to neoliberal economic
doctrines. They offered no programs of valid compensation to the people.
Instead, they instigated a policy of monumental fraud known as Sure-P.
However, the only thing sure about it was that its architects would
siphon the public’s funds to fatten their own wallets. They wanted to
save money (for themselves) yet expend the people for no good reason at
all.
Read his full statement after the cut
Ending Price Fixing, The Making of Economic Sense
To
construct the right building sometimes means we have to tear down the
wrong one standing in our way. Our economic development hinges in equal
measure on saying good bye to debilitating and corrupted old practices
as it does on embracing efficient, wealth creating new ones.
As
political progressives, we are anchored by a healthy and strong regard
for the positive role government must assume in ensuring fair play and
the just allocation of wealth and benefits within our political economy.
We understand that the so called free market is not always fair. This
is the major reason that we advocate a comprehensive policy of economic
development projects coupled with social programs. These development
projects will build the infrastructure and create jobs that were beyond
the ability and rationale of our private sector to do. The social
programs will bring succor to those the dynamics of the free market
would have otherwise left behind.
Yet,
as progressives we must be pragmatic and not allow ourselves to become
blinded by or render ourselves subservient to ideological bias. Ideology
is meant to serve us, not us to serve it. As such, we must recognize
that there are certain things the workings of the market perform better
over the longer arc of time than government may perform. Establishing
the most efficient price for what is essentially an economic commodity
is one such thing better left to the interplay of supply and demand.
While short-term exigencies may at times call for government action to
stabilize markets and prices, government’s long-term determination of
such economic prices, although initiated with the finest intentions,
often contorts into something ugly and callous. It tends to transmute
into corruption, waste and distorted pricing signals that cost the
economy more than they benefit the people.
Against
this background, we must assess the recent decision to allow the
workings of supply and demand to determine the price of fuel. Most of us
have called this process one of deregulation. This is an inaccuracy
that should be promptly corrected. This decision should end arbitrary
government price fixing. By ending this price fixing, government
regulation of this market will not be eliminated. It will simply change
from its emphasis on maintaining a subsidized price to ensuring that the
market remains free and devoid of collusion so that sufficient supply
is available at a defensible and affordable albeit higher than subsidy
price. Government must still monitor this market to ensure against
unjust enrichment that comes from attempts at price fixing.
Understandably
the new pricing decision elicited mixed reactions from a cross section
of Nigerians. This is understandable in view of the fact that the fuel
subsidy had been with us for such a long period that it seemed integral
to our political and economic life. However, we should not lament the
departure of something just because of its longevity particularly when
that very policy had ceased to serve us long ago.
The
decision to end the subsidy was hard but it was also inevitable. It had
distorted into a system where wrongdoers benefited at the expense of
the innocent. The bogus supplier was paid for supplying nothing while
you sweated in long lines for fuel that was never there. The smuggler
secreted fuel across the border while our economy crossed the border
into fuel scarcity. As the price stayed fixed at a low level, investors
were apprehensive about fixing existing or building new refineries. Our
petrochemical industry remained unfertilized because potential investors
could not decipher how they could make a decent return under such a
pricing regime. Because of these imbalances, we were forced to export
hard currency and many jobs to purchase fuel and other products abroad.
While
the price of fuel was cheap in paper, these were the hidden costs that
made the subsidy regime an expensive and heavy yoke the nation could ill
continue. With dwindling revenue from oil due to the slump in global
oil prices and a dwindling forex reserve, the country could no longer
live in denial.
President
Buhari after carefully weighing the options decided to do what is
right. In an act of courage he removed the oil subsidy thereby freeing
the downstream component of this strategic sector of the economy from
the distortions of price fixing.
However, this decision was not to be a step toward conservative austerity as practiced by the former government. That government simply wanted to end the program that they may prove obedient to neoliberal economic doctrines. They offered no programs of valid compensation to the people. Instead, they instigated a policy of monumental fraud known as Sure-P. However, the only thing sure about it was that its architects would siphon the public’s funds to fatten their own wallets. They wanted to save money (for themselves) yet expend the people for no good reason at all.
However, this decision was not to be a step toward conservative austerity as practiced by the former government. That government simply wanted to end the program that they may prove obedient to neoliberal economic doctrines. They offered no programs of valid compensation to the people. Instead, they instigated a policy of monumental fraud known as Sure-P. However, the only thing sure about it was that its architects would siphon the public’s funds to fatten their own wallets. They wanted to save money (for themselves) yet expend the people for no good reason at all.
The
Buhari government took a vastly different approach. Given the
inefficiencies inherent in the pricing regime, this administration asked
the fundamental question: could this money be better spent to help the
most vulnerable of our people. For it was also recognized that the
pricing regime was a regressive feature. Its benefit went
disproportionately to the well off who needed no such help. Better to
use the sums to more directly and exclusively assist poor and working
class Nigerians.
Thus,
President Buhari followed through with a 500 billon fund to support a
social safety program and empower the poor and needy. Five million
School children will be fed for 200 days. Other plans of funding social
infrastructure, education, transportation, health and other critical
areas needing attention. What the President did is about the future of
our country and that of the next generation.
With
regard to our petroleum sector, The President’s decision constitutes a
major step toward removing the nightmare of fuel importation and its
attendant hardships especially to our foreign reserve condition. It was
the right choice to make. The club of fuel importers had become a
parasite and a drain on our economy. With this decision the exploitation
by marketers, the unchecked smuggling, mismanagement, lost of
productive man hours with people waiting in fuel queues, traffic
congestion and health hazards associated with black market and other
desperate practices will steadily pass away.
For
almost 3 decades we have entertained distortions in the downstream
sector by operating an opaque system susceptible to manipulation and
structured in a way that allowed a few people to gain mightily from the
system and feed fat on the misery and frustration of millions of
Nigerians.
The
oil sector became unattractive to both local and foreign investors.
Government price pricing was a disincentive. Our oil refineries became
epileptic and later comatose. But now investment in the sector will open
to all. Instead of fighting this measure, opposing segments of
organized labor should consider collective investment in refineries.
Such investment will enrich membership and give them a direct interest
in the success of refineries crucial to our national growth.
As
it now stands, while we were paying on the front end a low price for
fuel when it could be gotten, we were being asked to pay too high a
price in hidden and indirect costs for such malpractice to continue. Not
every cost is defined by what comes out of your pocket. There are times
when the greatest cost is the failure to receive a benefit otherwise
due.
It is time to come to grips with the hard facts of the price fixing. It cuts and bleeds the economy in ways more numerous and deeper than those it heals.
It is time to come to grips with the hard facts of the price fixing. It cuts and bleeds the economy in ways more numerous and deeper than those it heals.
Moreover,
there are vastly better ways to spend the same money and materially
improve the wellbeing of millions of our people. This government did not
withdraw the subsidy in order to save them but spend the people. It is
transferring the funds to better spend them and better save the people.
Nothing in this world is perfect but this decision is a just and correct one aimed at bolstering the economy while better caring for those the system has unfairly treated. I can find little fault in the new policy taken and the reasons for it. When all is placed in the balance, the scales now better tip in favor of better economy and future because of the decision so wisely made.
Nothing in this world is perfect but this decision is a just and correct one aimed at bolstering the economy while better caring for those the system has unfairly treated. I can find little fault in the new policy taken and the reasons for it. When all is placed in the balance, the scales now better tip in favor of better economy and future because of the decision so wisely made.
See this thief who stole Lagos state dry.
ReplyDeleteAnd he is still stealing; he tied a whole Lagos state to his family; right now you can't separate Tinubu's family from Lagos; He is running Lagos as his family buisness; milking Lagos so badly.
DeleteIts therefore disgusting/ stinking to hear him talk about corruption. This can only be possible in Nigeria.
See kettle calling pot black thief Tinubu calling someone a thief.pls take several seats. Mtchewww
DeleteSee this thief who stole Lagos state dry.
ReplyDeleteSee this thief who stole Lagos state dry.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm! Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteThiefnubu please go and take several seats.. You're even lucky not to have been locked up in jail. If Buhari was honest and transparent in his government and war against corruption, men like u shouldn't be walking on the streets as free men..
ReplyDeleteU have said it all. His president is not transparent, fighting corruption one sided. Sure p or no sure p, i did not buy 6 tomatoes seed for #500 in jonathans tenure. This idiot that owns almost all d lagos state is condemning someone.. U are a joker oga...
DeleteSure P'' or no sure P'' as far as the economy is good we were ok with it....what hv u guys done.
ReplyDeleteMUMU FOOL NO GET WATIN E FIT TOK AGAIN...OOO ME BENEFIT FRM SURE P, NOW, I DE MAKE 20K EVERY DAY FRM MY ICE BLOCK BIZ SO MAKE DIS FOOLS WEY DEM NO NO WAITIN DEM WAN DO DAN TO GO DE DECEIVE NIGERIAN GO SIT DOWN
ReplyDeleteGod bless u sir!
ReplyDeleteI dnt have time for nonsense write-up
ReplyDeleteLIB ADDICT#just passing#
Who is this one? Please can some one tell me who is this?
ReplyDeleteHad it being that ur president is ruling like Jonathan Nigeria will not be dying or complaining so better hide ur face in shame.
The same scam u and ur satanic party has put Nigeria in.
The same way u are the highest fraudstern and cocaine master in nigerian and Africa.
Nigeria a place where criminal will be proud to accuse innocent people of what they didn't do.
Nigeria will never forget jonathans best government that favoured the poor more than the rich.
#sad indeed
Hey nigger ! All you comment are shits! Way too disgusting. Oh i see. And wow. I'm sad for you cos your parents should be crying and that's egregious due to their negligence. And my advice for you 👉🏾lifes to short to be pessimistic. Maybe you should go hang yourself. To end this your miserable life that's making you spit bullshits💯🤘🏽
DeleteMr Snoop for your mind your educated o? You have made zero point. In francis odegas voice* gerrarahia Mehn!
DeleteNo sense in this #snoop
DeleteLol snoop ur just a compound fool. What da fuck are u chatting? Is the bastard criminal thiefnubu ur father? Shut up! Ur not making sense
DeleteMtecwwwwww
ReplyDeleteU GO SOON DIE BET ME!!! BUT U GO CONFESS B4 U DIE
ReplyDeleteDat too harsh
DeleteYeah he is surely going to die, even u. And yes he'll confess before leaving, and he's doing that already. The Sure P scam is only few of his confessions...
DeleteCan they plz stop blaming Jona for everything? We all know Jona had his own shortcomings..from what we've seen so far Buhari led admiration is no different atall
ReplyDeleteWhat's this man saying? I know a lot of people who benefited from this Sure-P thing, omo, their live changed forever. Who has he helped that he is talking.
ReplyDeleteis it just me or what? Linda it's like you are the only bblogger yet to post about wizkid and yemi alade nomminated for best African act in BET Awards. even if u have beef for wizkid, which is unprofessional and stupidly childish of u, what about fellow woman, yemi alade. You are really weird ooh, after now u e forming woman rights, na wa 2u o
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is about beef. If Linda has decided not to publish ANYTHING about wizkid, negative or positive, then so be it. I'm sure it was a difficult decision for her to come to because wizkid is a news maker. However, sometimes one has to take the bitter with the sweet for peace of mind and to avoid small boy insults. If she had published BET news about Yemi Alade without mentioning wizkid, it would have generated unnecessary hassle, just like the Drake no1 mention did a few weeks ago. Life is too short.
DeleteStupid trash By annoy. how old are you pls?
Delete@Anon 4.57, I'm guessing wizkid requested she refrain from carrying his news during their police saga. Cos it doesn't make any sense why she wnt carry the news, after all it will bring more traffic to her blog. If she had carried yemi alade's news, without talking about wizkid, bizzybodies like you will still insult her. So dnt come here pretending like you give a rat's ass about her, women or this blog.
DeleteSee this mumu dey ask person how old are you? Are you his/her father? My friend park or just go hug transformer, efulefu like u. No go findd work, anuohia. Dey dere dey look for your mate
DeleteTinubu's existence in Nigeria, a monumental mistake to Nigerians. Nature should have dashed you to Niger Republic or Mali
ReplyDeletei benefitted hundred percent from sure- p in fact that's the only reason most of my friends can be able to put a good meal on their family table today .... U r a liar tinubu n Your deceit with your members ( apc) is over. You cant tell us more stories cos u just for once pointed out the good in last administration. #impeachbuhari#
ReplyDeletePeople that live in glass house should not through stone. Look at this cartoons of corruption calling a noble man names. One day your cup will get filled. SELFISH OLD FOOL.
ReplyDeletei benefitted hundred percent from sure- p in fact that's the only reason most of my friends can be able to put a good meal on their family table today .... U r a liar tinubu n Your deceit with your members ( apc) is over. You cant tell us more stories cos u just for once pointed out the good in last administration.
ReplyDeleteEach time I see "talks" like this, I blame Jona even more. If he had done d needful, thieves like Tinubu won't be walking/talking gibberish freely... Was Jona not given will power during creation or he decided not to use it? *thinking out loud*. GEJ, u wer too good for dis generation and country.
ReplyDeletesee who is talking. Thiefnubu. somebody who enriched himself with lagos state funds through companies he formed and enforced to run the state
ReplyDeleteToo much grammar I beg,ugly man.
ReplyDeleteToo much grammar I beg,ugly man.
ReplyDeletePlease let someone tell this old fool to go and sit somewhere
ReplyDeleteCorruption every where
ReplyDeleteCan you remove bishop oyedepo's pix pls, cos u sound so terrible and disgusting to associate urself with it
DeleteFraud abi when u were D governor, wa did u do mumu man
ReplyDelete-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
Instead of providing solution to the present situation he is talking about sure P.....God help naija our politicians are heartless
ReplyDeleteThis big time fraudsters should keep his nasty mouthshut please. Kettle calling pot black chio!
ReplyDeleteThis big time fraudsters should keep his nasty mouthshut please. Kettle calling pot black chio!
ReplyDeleteThis big time fraudsters should keep his nasty mouthshut please. Kettle calling pot black chio!
ReplyDeleteNo issues with subsidy removal,no issues surep being corrupt. The issue what will Tinubu's APC do differently? I am in my mid 40s and I can tell you I have not experienced this level of pains and scarcity. Some years back, there was flood everywhere and people thought there will be hunger in the land but none of that happened owing to President Jonathan's vision with respect to Agriculture and food sufficiency driven by the then minister who is currently ADB president. Now it is difficult to feed 3 times daily. There was no flood and there was no drought. What happened? Tinubu and co are too far from the people and do not know what I am talking about. It is beyond wrestling political power from PDP.it is beyond promises. It is beyond Lai Mohammed's propaganda. If you conduct opinion pool today, all of us that voted for change would clearly tell you it was an error of judgement. Agreed that there was slump in oil price but oil was sold for $10 in the time past and Nigeria was not broke. What of the huge sums coming from custom, income tax,VAT,WHT etc? Since this year I have provided light for myself.what excuse do they have? Vandals. The same excuse PDP gave for 16 years. These guys must think creatively and solve the county's problem. The era of empty political promises is gone. The people will ask you. The Almighty God who has the power to kill and to make alive will ask you. Time is running out.
ReplyDelete1 million likes for your comment...you said it all,unbiased and thoughtful
DeleteA thief calling another Thief, Thief!!! Mr. Ojuyobo, ole of Bourdillion, can you adjust well.
ReplyDeleteLOL at Tinubu, are you serious? You dare call someone a fraud, where did you get your wealth from? May the Almighty God deal with you and your entire extended family. people are suffering
ReplyDeleteThief Tinubu can you shot ur mouth down. Jonathan was our best President but the problem was the pple working with him. Go and sit down with ur scam Buhari. God will judge all of you.
ReplyDeleteWe just need to learn how to think, before we write. So many thoughtless youth in the society GOD help my country
ReplyDeleteHe might b quite right and no wonder Nigeria is tagged fantastically corrupt.
ReplyDeleteHahahahahahaha! Libers don finish this old fool.
ReplyDeleteSee who is talking????
ReplyDeleteNot true people benefited from sure p.i know one myself
ReplyDeletesure p help me to get a job,
ReplyDeleteThiefnubu is a replica of fantastically corrupt leader
ReplyDeleteMad people that collected SuRE P and change it to another name, when it came to osun state they call it O YES, in lagos they call it BRT,ibadan has it own. Now that man they say na fraud.
ReplyDeleteThiefnubu shame on you... Thank God you're not gonna leave forever.
ReplyDeleteAnd how is aisha buhari donoting 55million to rescued chibok girl's family not fraud
ReplyDeleteIt's so unfortunate that people like Tinubu can open his dirty and cursed mouth to blame Jonathan. Well it's not your fault, if not for some gullible Nigerians that bought your lies and voted for your dubious party, you wouldn't be saying thrash.
ReplyDeleteIgbo people on these blog lack sense, that's why u people will Neva rule Nigeria because of ur hatred and disdain for other tribes.. Half of you did not read what he said and u keep abusing. Simple economic logic you just hate whatever buhari does.. Hatred will get you nothing... Instead of yr tribe to build and present some capable of ruling Nigeria u people channel your energy on hating the current president. Sentiment would get you no where..
ReplyDeleteGuess what! We trully and honestly hate you. You guys also have bad breadth. Fool
DeleteSo now what do u comment?
DeleteWhy do you have to specifically call out a tribe ? This goes to show that Nigerians are very far from been United. You can make your point without calling out a tribe.
DeleteIf u like call igbo people out a hundred times u fool. We and our cousins will forever be better than u fools. Watch us gradually divide from people of ur tribe holding us back. No igbo man wants to be president of the nonsense called a country so pass
DeleteOn point. Tinubu. I hope the deregulation will benefit the average Nigerian. Sentiments and emotion aside. Let's look at the quality of his explanation. Not his person.
ReplyDeleteI buy your point on deregulation but i beg to differ when you denigrate the past regime, using it as excuse to parry support from over gullible populace and justify what you never supported in the past. I hope you are not paving way for a multi consortium headed by yourself
ReplyDeleteStop criticizing and denigrating others, start your own and let us see.
ReplyDeleteThe jagaban of curuption shush ur mawt.
ReplyDeleteIfy leave Tinubu alone after all it is Lagos and not Anambra,Enugu or Imo state pls go and put check on your own governors
ReplyDeleteWork on ur stained reputation,GEJ is loved by many stop wasting ut tym to tarnish him pls.
ReplyDeleteImagine a first class thief like Tinubu has the got to criticize our former president. It's in a country like Nigeria can this criminal can be moving around and say what he is saying. This should be in jail or better hang a stone on his neck and drop into the ocean
ReplyDeleteThis man is confused
ReplyDeleteTinubu, can you please tell the world how you made your wealth? Righteous or unrighteous. God will judge you.
ReplyDeleteShut up you idiot! You are fraud prrsonified
ReplyDeleteI thought this Tinubu should be in jail for buying a whole state with stolen funds
ReplyDeletePeople dey hungry now u dey bring past tense, me I know people wey benefit for sure-p well well, ibeg face the present issues
ReplyDeletePeople dey hungry now u dey bring past tense, me I know people wey benefit for sure-p well well, ibeg face the present issues
ReplyDeleteYou see? Igbos have come here again to show ignorance. Did any of you even read the facts? Ask yourselves,why did Christopher Kolade resign as Sure-p boss? Stop your hatred & face facts.Jonathan na nwunye ya bu ndi oshi!
ReplyDeleteUr a compound fool. Smh I pity u. They there dey call igbos. They are leaving u soon, go to the eastern region and see their empire. Igbos developed Nigeria. Idiot!!
DeleteThis corruptcorrupt ugly man is at it again!
ReplyDeleteTinubu,PHB n it regime are good without corruption. GEJ n it regime are bad with corruptions.God n history will be so kind to be the rightful judge.Before this four years runs out,take my words the story will definitely change.we will be a witness in all,It may not last believe me.life goes on.
ReplyDeleteTinubu pls goandie! please..
ReplyDelete@Baba Tinubu... See who is taking.., pekele Pekele
ReplyDeleteYou have not taken your Cocaine today?
@Galore
Tinubu should leave jonathan alone and focus on how his party apc would make nigeria better because the country is worse under their leadership
ReplyDeleteVultures has gathered again to suck the blood of Nigerian masses again. They are coming out bcause of the N145 per litre price; it's a nice pipe for the sucking "let's prepare and defend it well with our normal blame game" they are said. Blood suckers!
ReplyDeleteOga kindly shut the fuck up please. I didn't even bother reading the story. You sir no moral justification to call anything a fraud. You invented fraud. Just becos nemesis hasn't caught up with you yet doesn't mean the people have forgotten. Although dumb Nigerians probably have forgotten.
ReplyDeletey ify go leave tinubu alone, see people when get nothing to offer but to shit blame as long as APF whole duty and dividends is to blame jona they will remain defected even in defect
ReplyDeleteHow can he say that sure-p was a "monumental fraud" when i can testify how it changed my cousin's life, who is now an entrepreneur, earning at least 10k from his business daily, courtesy of Sure-P. See krol pot calling kettle black. Tinubu that is still robbing Lagos till 2mao. Father of lagos agberos, i hail oooh
ReplyDeleteThiefnubu are you not the one that established fantastically corrupt government. Ole tell us about chibok scam. Idiot what do you have to say about Muhammad buari trips. See this animated baboo embalm old wrinkle monkey. You ask your apshit saints to probe opposition party, can you help me with a diagram explain to Nigerians they kind of change you idiots promised them. Don't worry by the time militants will finish with this administration all of us including you go hear am. Devastated ghoul from yellowba abi na Yoruba. Make you no allow me to insult you ooo I no dey like to insult my elders.
ReplyDelete*NWA 042*
SEE POT ACCUSING KETTLE OF BEING TOO BLACK. THIS GUY ONLY DID NOTHING OTHER THAN BEING A GOVERNOR FOR 8YRS AND AFTERWARD OWNS A PRIVATE JET, FIRST NATION AIRLINE, THE NATION NEWSPAPER, TVC TELEVISION ON DSTV 418, MANY BUILDINGS AND LANDS, GAVE HIS FAMILY THE FRANCHISE OF ALL MARKETS IN LAGOS AND MANY MORE.
ReplyDeleteBastard!!See father of corruption talking! Shame on you!
ReplyDeleteOnly wish Tinubu will read the comments here and know how people feel about him
ReplyDeleteTo anonymous May 21, 2016 at 1:28PM
ReplyDeleteYou meant "Only wish Tinubu will read comments here and know how Igbos feel about him"
Well, he is already aware of that. Most Yorubas are aware of that.
Most of those writing rubbish here are Igbos who left their badly run Igbos states to live, get educated, get jobs or run busiinesses in Well managed Yoruba states.
Now, if you all have these hatred, why not just leave all Yoruba states and go back home?
The mad anonymous at1.28pm is very stupid.
ReplyDelete'That Ibos should go back to their states and leave the well managed Yoruba states'. It's not your fault. Was Lagos not the capital of Nigeria at one point,was it not developed fully with Nigerian money. The same money that was gotten from oil, mined from the same ibo states. To the detriment of the Ibos living there. Did the yoruba and Hausa leaders we had for donkey years not build institutions in Lagos using the ibo oil money. Now that everything has been set up and a new capital built in Abuja with the same ibo oil, useless people like u are talking trash that Ibos should leave and miraculously wave their magic wand to fix their states that was destroyed and neglected to feed yours. Ingrates.