Letter to mr president

His Excellency, G.E. Jonathan,

I have watched with keen interest events at play of late in our country Nigeria and it beats my imagination how we ended up here ,I was discussing with an associate of mine how I intend protesting your planned removal of oil subsidy and his reply was maybe we should allow subsidy to be removed for things to work better at first I got angry but later I had to let it go because he lives in london not here and wouldn’t understand but for those who support the removal of subsidy and for you mr president I will want to paint this graphic picture.

1, if fuel price hits above 141 naira and the cheapest fare from lagos to Abuja costs approximately 5000 naira if you travel in a rickety bus what do you think the same trip will cost after this subsidy removal ? Am sure well over 10,000 naira,even a flight to same destination will cost about 50,000 naira .

So if a yam farmer in zaki biam pays so much money to transport his produce to a lagos market a tuber of yam will cost well over 1000 naira

Have you ever imagined what the cost of making a simple telephone call will be if the telecommunications companies power their base stations with diesel from such a market

Have you ever imagined what it will cost we nigerians to power our various Gen sets both at home and in our business premises due to lack of power supply ,

Nigeria is far behind in africa as per power supply I personally know some nigerians working for the US army in war torn Afghanistan and they said the power supply is stable there

So are you ready to throw your fellow Nigerians into such hard ship now?

Mr president I have this advice for you ,we Nigerians support the removal of these subsidies both certain steps should be taken first

1, all those that have been involved in this reckless business of subsidy should be investigated and tried

2, that the senate should be allowed to carry out an open inquiry into how funds were and are still being released to certain individuals in the name of subsidy

3, that our refineries should be fixed to boost local production and govt should at this moment finance more refineries because once we boost local production and meet our daily needs the ap called subsidy will die a natural death and we will also make good income from the by products generated from crude oil refining such as bitumen and grease to name a few

Let’s learn from countries like Venezuela where the president Hugo Chavez has built over 15 refineries since he took over and also the countries equivalent of our corrupt infested NNPC owns and manages 12 refineries in the USA which is an additional income for the country of Venezuela ,sir let us sit and study nigerians peculiarity and quit asuming world bank and IMF measures will work here and adopt indigenous policies that are less hurtful to our people

I advice you to abandon your recklessly planned removal of subsidy ,because I forsee it to be the last straw to break the camels back, have you ever imagined the type of inflation your planned subsidy removal will cause?

Nigerians are hungry ,homeless lack good water we lack good health care facilities and schools and over 65million nigerians are un employed so incase you don’t know you are sitting on a keg of gun powder a revolution with the style of the tinusian tsunami currently sweeping through Arabia is just around the Conner if you fail to listen

Pls wise up and quit taking advices that will plunge the country into hardship and confusion

Yours sincerly
Adetokunbo A.Onasanya