The House of Representatives has restated its determination not to let Nigerians down on the proposed removal of subsidy from petroleum products by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
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Reps reaffirm opposition to
fuel subsidy removal December 1, 2011 at 4:02 am by Daily
Post Staff The House of Representatives has
restated its determination not to let
Nigerians down on the proposed
removal of subsidy from petroleum
products by the Goodluck Jonathan
administration. The Chairman of the House Committee on
Media and Public Affairs, Zakari
Mohammed, said Nigerians should have
faith in the House on the matter, adding
that the President must present it to the
National Assembly. Mohammed addressed reporters at an
interactive session with members of the
House.
He said the President would have to
explain to Nigerians details of what is
expended on fuel subsidy as against what was appropriated by the National
Assembly. Mohammed said: “The position of the
House is that we don’t even know the
amount spent on fuel subsidy. All oil
producing countries in the world
subsidise and we said if last year we
spent half a trillion, this year we are talking about over a trillion, there is a
problem somewhere. “We are saying: where is this money
going? We told Mr President at the last
meeting we had with him to go after the
cabal. ‘You are empowered; if it is on
that, we are supporting you to unravel
the economic saboteurs’. “We are still on that page. Until we are
convinced, we will not do anything to
betray the confidence of the people. We
have closed this matter for a while. We
are on it and we have not concluded on
it. What we are saying is that the appropriate government agency, right
from the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) and others, should
give us information.”