₦airaland Forum

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hisexcellency34:
https://independent.ng/fuel-scarcity-nigerians-are-really-suffering-ben-bruce/

When choosing leaders let go political sentiment

Suffering and smiling....in some countries these would have caused protest and chaos but start it here an they will say you want to change a democratic elected government or he is not from your region....
The elites are really taken us for granted....

Go and settle your banks debts before pontificating

There is electricity and fuel everywhere.

Things are getting really difficult these days

Infact suffering is an understatement...Dem go soon off this one now and na till 7pm then Dem go off am after 30min lobaatan

Maxymilliano:
Sometimes I wonder what Nigerians benefits from Nigeria.

Even security and safety they no get.

APC... The gift that keeps on giving

Maxymilliano:
Sometimes I wonder what Nigerians benefits from Nigeria.

Lies, deciet, wickedness from our leaders and the fools that claps and supports them,
Our president is out of town to look after himself,
The wife is somewhere in Dubai enjoying herself,
Their children in high places living large and we are suffering fuel scarcity and no power supply while our minister of petroleum is somewhere in another man's land gallivanting,
This country needs restructuring, that is the only solution.

You've just described the only "heaven" that the common nigerian knows. Thank God for the few politicians who haven't been driven mad by the uncontrolled looting.

Well, you are saying your own...

Nairaland APC urchins would have you know this is the best administration in the history of Nigeria!!!

Some are even typing this fallacy using bonus data while trekking about!

Was this clown sleeping before. . ?

Are you not part of the problem?

Nonsense.

Handsum64:
Go and settle your banks debts before pontificating

His bank debts are irrelevant to this topic of Nigerians suffering terribly...

You don't have to derail a thread because it doesn't sit well with you. That's just being obtuse!

Spot on! The lifeless, sadistic, redundant scammer and cohorts are all shades of DISASTERS!

The shithole is on a cliff edge!

No, we are not suffering

This is the logical conclusion of underpaying both the power and petroleum sector in the name of subsides for over 5 decades because , poverty

When you pay N162 for something thag really costs 300 naira and above per liter, and when you pay 71 naira for something that costs 83 naira and above per kwh, this is what you get. Bad service, sabotage, corruption, etc. All because you do not pay the money that these sectors need to operate fully.

We have GSM because in the days of bad service, we paid them what they demanded(if you think their service is bad now, in the good old days, you could not call between MTN and Econet lines easily, then you had to pay extra, then you could not call an NITEL line easily, and service was patchy in many parts, yet they charged high money ), and at the end they used the profit they made to fix up our working telecoms sector with no gofment money

Even the yam you buy , you can buy it because your farmer gets to sell the yam at the price he or she wants.

So why can't we pay the petroleum and power sector the prices they want to set? Not the prices government sets for them so that they.can pay subsidy that is insufficient?


We don't have light and petrol because we do not want to pay them their price. And thus they cannot make a profit that they would use to give us what we want

You cannot pay for power and petrol below their cost of production and expect good power supply and good qulaity petrol produced from good quality refineries. At the end, you end up with a mess.

This time, let's be realistic. Years of subsides are not helping us. Let's pay the market price for petrol and power. YES....I KNOW....PRICES WILL GO UP AND WE WILL ALL STARVE.....but things will work better , and we may even get more investment, more jobs, more revenue in form of export revenue and taxation revenue...SO THAT WE DO NOT STARVE FOLKS...and eventually lower prices.

Modified

Since I posted this, I have gotten two abusive comments. To those who abused me, have a good day. You are better than this. As for my opinion, it is mine and I stand by it. And anyway, I am not in government, and government is doing the worng things in my opinion. So calm down.

DamnnNiggarr:


I'm still bemused at how some people (Youths for that matter) in their right senses, still find their voices in the defense of this present catastrophic government, and are proud doing it.

Heaven would've fall if it's still goodluck Jonathan that's in power.

Especially that unfortunate vulture seller on nairaland

All of una go learn sense las las, make una continue dey show love to your oppressors.

Clueless thieves parading as politicians!

Don't worry Mr Bruce.

Heaven will not fall. Nigerians are used to working like donkeys for carrot.

War torn Ukraine is better than Nigeria.

RapistOnBail:
Things are getting really difficult these days

It has never been easy. Looks like you have a short memory.

hermesprogidy:
War torn Ukraine is better than Nigeria.

You need a mental health assessment.

Diligent1:
Ok

But Mr Ben Bruce,were you not in PDP govt for 16 - years,so what are you now saying?
The Power fluctuations then is the same now!
Let the truth be told,:
-How much did govt received in Dollars ($) and spent on the eletric -Power, including IPP( Independent Power Project) many were never visited or established!
- To worsen the situation, President Jonathan created Discos,though not a bad idea but finished the job poorly by excluding Foreign Professionals like General Electric,etc.and many Discos that were awarded the job have no idea of how to make Nigeria great.
See where we are now!
So,Mr Common Sense should not pretend they were not part of the problems in Nigeria!
Make una all park somewhere,abeg!

omooba969:
You need a mental health assessment.

In the midst of Russian bombing, Ukrainians still have electricity. Who needs a mental health assessment now?

Handsum64:
Go and settle your banks debts before pontificating

Typical of Nigerians who routinely fail to learn.

Always attacking the messenger when they don't find comfort in the message.

omooba969:
It has never been easy. Looks like you have a short memory.

It was better. Now it’s worst.

hermesprogidy:
In the midst of Russian bombing, Ukrainians still have electricity. Who needs a mental health assessment now?

So electricity is your problem - you need a mental health assessment.

RapistOnBail:
It was better. Now it’s worst.

Nigerians have always been short-changed, it has never been easy.

We should have developed more than what we are today but for corruption which has always been our Achilles heel.

hermesprogidy:
In the midst of Russian bombing, Ukrainians still have electricity. Who needs a mental health assessment now?

Ukraine supplies half its power supply from nuclear power.

Nigerians, anytime you suggest nuclear, have the emotional equivalent of a thermonuclear meltdown.

Also, Ukranians pay for the power they consume at the price the power company sets. Nigerians don't pay enough for the power we consume...we pay below the production cost, so most power companies run at a loss, and need repeated bailouts by government (they dare not call it subsidy, but it is), and then 30-40% of us don't pay. And when we get meters, many bypass.

omooba969:
Nigerians have always been short-changed, it has never been easy.

You speak for yourself

RapistOnBail:
You speak for yourself

This is our problem as a people - Individualism.

If I'm not affected, that's fine, I don't care about others.

SMH