By Kayode Araba.
Senator Onyeka Peter Nwaebonyi Ebonyi North Senatorial District, has urged Nigerians not to contemplate or demand the return of fuel subsidy regime because it was a conduit pipe for the cabal to siphon the resources of this country to the detriment of the poor masses.
Senator Nwaebonyi stated this while fielding questions from journalists on the protest in Niger state over the hardship in the country and his party’s position that the protest is being instigated by the opposition party instead of fuel subsidy removal which distorted everything.
According to him, of the truth and as a leader, I must admit that things are not very easy but not only in Nigeria, it is all over the world. The economy globally is bad and we should not think of returning subsidy because I must tell you, that has been a conduit pipe for the cabals to siphon the resources of this country to the detriment of the poor masses. He added that the revenue of the country has increased because of subsidy removal and in no time.
However, on the rising cases of kidnapping in Abuja in particular and Nigeria in general, Senator Nwaebonyi said that during the screening of the Service Chiefs, they promised Ngerians that insecurity will be a thing of the past upon assumption of office but it appears the insecurity is now on the increase and that is why the senate invited the Service Chiefs and parent ministries to explain why the case of insecurity is not abating instead it is increasing on daily basis he said Nigerians are very anxious to nip this insecurity from the bud and we cannot continue to lament.
He said we need people that will give us solution to the problem, not people that will be coming up with rhetorics, throwing blame games from one security agency to the other. We are out to represent Nigerians in this respect to the extent that if a Service Chief is not performing and we find out that the IGP is not performing, we will be left with no option than make necessary recommendation to the president for hid removal and I believe that Mr. President is also for Nigerians and he will do the needful towards giving Nigerians what we promise in our manifesto.
