Fuel Subsidy: Fawehinmi’s widow calls for mass protest on Dec 31

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The wife of the late fiery lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Ganiat, has called on Nigerians to join in the mass protest against the planned fuel subsidy removal. “All Nigerians must come out in their millions on December 31, for a rally to protest this inhumanity against helpless Nigerians in the disguise of the removal of fuel subsidy,” Mrs. Fawehinmi said yesterday at a press briefing in Lagos.

She added: “They have now decided to pull the wool over our eyes by insisting that they want to withdraw or remove a fictitious subsidy which never existed in the first place, in a bid to increase prices and unleash untold hardship on the poor masses of this country. “The Nigerian masses can barely afford the necessities of life now that the pump price of petrol is N65. What will now be the level of sustenance when the price is N137 per litre? It is the masses that will suffer as a result of the increase in the pump price of petrol.” She asked the Federal Government to stop deceiving Nigerians on the issue of fuel subsidy, accusing both the World Bank and

the International Momentary Fund (IMF) of being the proponents of the policy. The widow of the late legal icon noted that it was very sad that the Federal Government is going ahead on the issue of removing fuel subsidy, whereas the oil sector had not been subsidized by any Nigerian government. She lamented that there was conscious stealing by Nigerian leaders, their cohorts and cronies in public and private sectors of the economy, adding that this open mismanagement of the public fund has put the country in its present economic predicament. Fawehinmi pointed out that the looting of the public treasury has affected all the socio- infrastructural amenities to the extent that public institutions are on the verge of total collapse.

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