Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, has chastised people who are complaining about the increase in fuel prices caused by the removal of the fuel subsidy.
He contended that the same people who complained about the foreign debt under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, as well as the current fuel price under President Bola Tinubu’s administration, do not understand the difference between action and consequence.
The political analyst insisted that it was impossible to have it both ways, adding that the reason for the foreign government loans was to keep the fuel subsidy in place.
Speaking via Instagram, he wrote;
When you complain that our foreign debt exploded under Buhari and you are now fuming that fuel price has gone up under Tinubu, you show you are immature and do not understand the causal relationship between action and consequences.
You can’t have it both ways. Much of our borrowing was to fund fuel subsidy. If you don’t want an unsustainable debt that neither our children nor we can pay, you MUST accept the new fuel prices.
Nigeria MUST remove partisan politics from fuel, electric power generation, and Ajaokuta Steel Company. Because without tackling those three things, we can never grow to meet our potential.
I know that Buhari, Tinubu, Tunde Bakare, and co did it to us. But I am not on a revenge mission. I am on a rescue mission. It is better to have appropriate fuel price than to have an inappropriate debt burden.
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