shokayz:

Let us remind ourselves the reason for this
showdown. It is not about subsidy, I keep repeating
this fact. It is about the following indices that make
our govenrment big, wasteful and ineffective: Big and overblown governments at all levels
70 Ministers
Over twenty Special advisers (on what?)
Every minister is entitled to 4 Special Assistants
Senate President earns 88 Million Naira monthly
His Deputy Earns 55 Million Naira monthly Senators take home 14 Million naira monthly
It takes 1.4 Billion naira to mantain the NASS annually
(Rememeber what Sanusi said about 25% of our GDP
is used to feed people who only sit Tuesday -
Thursday)
Our Governors exhibit such level of opulence shunned by the richest nations in the world
Our 2012 budget has a deficit component to it. We
are supposed to borrow about 1.6 TRILLION NAIRA.
NASS will be paid from that!
Aso Rock will use 1 Billion of it to eat!
Aso Rock will use another 1 Billion to fuel generators. The Vice President will use 58 Million Naira to buy
newspapers
The office of Patience Jonathan will use 500 Million to
speak bad english to you.
We will spend close to 500 Billion on International
Travels In 2012, some state governors will collect 100million as
security votes MONTHLY
They will continue to enjoy immunity clause!
Your hospitals will have no drugs
Your schools will still have no quality to train a world
class scholar Your roads will still be death traps
You will still be a local government unto yourself,
providing water, security, power and social security!
You will still pay more for petroleum products.
You will pay toll in 2012 on federal interstate roads.
If you will like this to continue in 2012, then stay at home and enjoy power as provided by PHCN!

Our President should take a clue from Singapore Gross Salary cut, and do likewise in Nigeria
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/​world-asia-16404935

Pukkah:

Who are this man's advisers for God's sake? Does he want to capsize the ship of this country? Is this the best way to handle this sensitive, intricate, and precarious issue?

We are watching.

really I do not know,

See this breakdown for GEJ and VP 2012 Expenses:

Feeding the Presidency :                           NGN 992,570,000.00
Kitchen and Household equipment:           NGN 45,000,000.00
Refreshment:                                             NGN 293,000,000.00
State House clinic:                                     NGN 1,200,000,000.00
Foreign trips:                                             NGN 11,250,000,000.00
New presidential fleets:                            NGN 1,900,000,000.00
Maintenance of Guest House:                   NGN 1,500,000,000.00
Bullet proof cars:                                       NGN 280,000,000.00
Extension of presidential villa                    NGN 75,000,000.00
Renovation of state house                        NGN 530,000,000.00

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) listened to President Goodluck Jonathan’s broadcast to the nation  tonight.



The speech is undoubtedly due to the resistance of Nigerians to the unreasonable increase in PMS (petrol) prices and the planned national strikes  scheduled to begin on Monday January 9, 2012.  So the Presiden having to  address Nigerians, is the first gain of the planned protests.

But the President’s address follows the pattern of other documents( like the SURE Programme) by his administration; long in rhetorics and short on basic issues.  For instance, the major anchor of the broadcast is that salaries of political office holders are to be cut by 25 per cent.  But he failed to tell us how much this will amount to. Is this a mere symbolic gesture or a fundamental contribution to economic recovery?

He also talked about his administration holding meetings with transporters to reduce fares.  We see this as a populist statement that has no foundation in reality.  If a transporter who used to buy petrol at N65 per litre now buys it between N141 and N220, what appeal can be made to him not to increase his fares by a high percentage?  How do you “deregulate” the economy and hope to regulate transport fares by private operators?




In any case, transport fare is just one of the items that shot up. Prices of basic commodities like food have also increased, and there is a fuel price hike-engineered hyper inflation in the country.
The President should have reversed the price of PMS to N65 which would have automatically reduced rising tension in the country.

The President also promised the completion   of rail lines and infusion of buses in to the transport system.  It is like putting the chart before the horse; these measures should have been put in place before the astronomical increase in petrol price.


We reiterate that Nigerians cannot afford the high fuel prices and will not accept the hyper inflation this misguided policy has created.

President Jonathan lost a great opportunity in his broadcast by sticking to his guns; that the unreasonable increase in fuel prices will remain.

The Labour Movement and its allies on behalf of the Nigerian populace  reiterate that the broadcast has changed nothing and that the indefinite strikes, rallies and mass protests scheduled to commence nationwide on Monday 9th January, 2012 will go on.
The will of the Nigerian people must prevail over that of any government in power.

Owei Lakemfa                                                     John Kolawole
NLC Acting General Secretary                 TUC Secretary  General

I do not think He is super dumb but I think he is not courageous to fight the CABAL or Corruption.

Nigerians stand up, Say NO to FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL.
Let us join the strike action,
Let us go to Abuja

The figures in the table stand out, now I do believe that our leaders are egocentric and self-centered.
If Nigerians are suffering because of petrol subsidy removal and our elected officials (GEJ and VP) are spending these much just to make their lives comfortable.
As if that is not enough, there is 250 billion naira set aside as Security Vote yearly and huge amount being spent as salaries and allowances of our Senators and House of Representative Members.

Nigerians stand up, Say NO to FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL

GEJ wake up and address the issue of the Cabal.
The government must drastically cut down the cost of maintaining public and civil servants –
security votes,
multiple advisers,
fuel guzzling convoys,
gigantic salaries and allowances,
excessive foreign travel and estacodes etc.


http://www.eienigeria.org/fuel_subsidyAD.pdf