[b] Banks have merged, the cost of funding for small businesses has not dropped, all the promises associated with the consolidation and merger are still a mirage and vulnerable elements of the society bear the malfunction that our society has turned to. Only last night I sat up late to really get to the bottom root of the mathematics of increased salaries and I nodded my head at how vulnerable we are as a people. If the government has increased wages and salaries by 15% of what benefit is it if the lowest paid civil servant on the Federal pay is 7500, that increase is barely 1000, and then all his allowances, and leave grant are consolidated, meaning that it is now included in the monthly take home pay rather than paid in bulk, what is the benefit when prices go up by 100, 200, 300% in the market, of what significance is it that transportation is up by more percentage, how does it translate to regular power supply when indeed supply has dropped and tariff has increased. In the market, market people have increased goods, so also services, as the activities of middlemen go into play, no one acts as a stop gap or regulatory body, so every body is seen as a federal worker whose salaries has been increased. The fuel situation is not about easing but sadly in our vulnerability Nigerians are not mourning the unthinkable price at which the commodity is being sold but we are requesting that the product be available and one wonders our line of reasoning.
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