₦airaland Forum

OkCornel:
Combat smuggling by handing heavy prison sentences to smugglers as a deterrent!

Jeez! What sort of dingbats do we have in the government?!

As Venezuela, Angola and Saudi and other countries tried...oh wait, they were unable to stop it.

LIbya even resorted to using jet fighters to bomb smuggling hideouts. Did not work...

Humans are creatures of profit. Once a profit is to be made, people will do criminal activity.

Smuggling tankers smh with umaned drones and or statelite images the minister can be in Abuja and see what is happening at the borders.

This is a very useless reason. This was the exact reason given for the last increase in pump price. Did the smuggling stop ? Nooo

Why should Nigerians pay for the inefficiencies of our security at the borders

With the last increased in pump price, inflation was almost 300 percent. People are struggling to get buy, now they want to do another increase

You lie! You lie!!

Good for nothing useless country, why import what u have ? Can't all they have been spending in the name of subsidy build a new refinery and put an end to the importation of what God freely gave Nigeria ?

It simply means, we are all smugglers....smh

Tulumbu appointess are extremely dull & very very incompetent.

Their solutions for every single thing is either TAXATION, INCREASED TAXATION OR INCREASE PRICE

very over hyped incompetent trash!!!!

Thunder.........

Dis people are very stupid..... Is it not d responsibility of d government to combat smuggling by securing our borders? If u like sell at 1k smugglers will smuggle and sell for 1500 na still innocent Nigerians wey no dey smuggle go come dey suffer.... Iswr na stupid people dey rule us

So because u can't curb smuggling everybody should suffer?

nairalanda1:


Someone has spoken the cold hard truth.

Etiher we sell fuel above the landing cost, or we will continue to feed the smugglers free money and free cash.

And before you come and start shouting 'Why can't government stop the smugglers...ask the Saudis, Venezuelans, Angolans, Iranians and especially Libya why they can't stop smuggling too? Are they run by Nigerian leaders?

I mean, I buy fuel at below N700 and then cross the border and sell that thing at N1400 or more. TELL ME, won't you be able to come home , bribe the customs men and women, and police, and civil defence, AND STILL MAKE A FAKKING PROFIT.


Yet at the end, most Nigerians say we should keep fuel below the landing cost because ;poverty. Yet these people won't do the same for their businesses because.....poverty.

If you want to end smuggling, etc, etc....STOP KEEPING SUBSIDY, AND FACE THE EFFING REALITY.

And if you think this makes me an APC supporter, you are either mad, or sick in the head.

Why bribe them when they can also engage in the business themselves, either directly or through proxy.

11Monkeys:
The same useless story that won't stop smuggling is what this idiot is churning out.

If you can't police your border areas well enough, smuggling becomes lucrative.

If you sell a litre of fuel 1000 naira in Nigeria and, beyond the shores of Nigeria, eg, Cameroon where a litre is sold for 1200 naira, that makes it highly lucrative. 200x45,000 litres of fuel is hell lotta of money from one tanker alone.

This is why text book economics won't work here. Police the borders and stop criminal elements from smuggling petroleum products to neighbouring countries.

This cretinous idea of price increase to stop smuggling is baseless, unworkable and a burden to citizens of this country especially those on the lowest rung of poverty benchmark.

It's not that they can't stop the smuggling...ITS THAT THEY JUST WON'T( ITS EXTREMELY LUCRATIVE) AND their is absolutely NO WAY YOU CAN SMUGGLE PETROL IN PROFITABLE QUANTITIES WITHOUT THE AID OF INSIDERS AT THE BORDER, SHYT is extremely flammable & easily trackable

If border agents really wanna do their jobs, shooting those canoes & tankers to oblivion with the smugglers would drastically reduce the process

One fool will soon come here to rationalize this minister's statement.

nairalanda1:
As Venezuela, Angola and Saudi and other countries tried...oh wait, they were unable to stop it.

LIbya even resorted to using jet fighters to bomb smuggling hideouts. Did not work...

Humans are creatures of profit. Once a profit is to be made, people will do criminal activity.

Death penalty will go a long way in curbing that nonsense.

Hope this country isn't under a Curse

I just don't understand.

Evil party

Mad man

This man has mental problem I guess, that is why he can not think better. If I may ask, is that the only way to solve this simple problem without making other Nigerian to suffer?
Again, he pointed finger on some people, why can they do something in that direction? So the only way out is by increasing or selling his imported fuel higher.
Why can't we have our own refineries working and and put an end for fuel importation? Am so disappointed that the minister could not think of that but only see to it that if the fuel is sold higher then smuggling will stop.
A very big fool indeed.

This idiot should b fired immediately for sabotage. U want to inflict more pains to Nigerians so that Nigerians will continue to blame President Tinunu

ogododo:
https://nairametrics.com/2024/08/31/nnpc-must-sell-petrol-above-landing-cost-to-combat-smuggling-oil-minister

You guys don't have the solution to Nigeria problem, you guys are becoming Nigeria's problem.

nairalanda1:


Someone has spoken the cold hard truth.

Etiher we sell fuel above the landing cost, or we will continue to feed the smugglers free money and free cash.

And before you come and start shouting 'Why can't government stop the smugglers...ask the Saudis, Venezuelans, Angolans, Iranians and especially Libya why they can't stop smuggling too? Are they run by Nigerian leaders?

I mean, I buy fuel at below N700 and then cross the border and sell that thing at N1400 or more. TELL ME, won't you be able to come home , bribe the customs men and women, and police, and civil defence, AND STILL MAKE A FAKKING PROFIT.


Yet at the end, most Nigerians say we should keep fuel below the landing cost because ;poverty. Yet these people won't do the same for their businesses because.....poverty.

If you want to end smuggling, etc, etc....STOP KEEPING SUBSIDY, AND FACE THE EFFING REALITY.

And if you think this makes me an APC supporter, you are either mad, or sick in the head.

Increasing the pump price of petrol won't stop the smugglers from their business. Will it?

Please just make your 4yrs and go. Thank you for always feeding us with bad news

nairalanda1:
As Venezuela, Angola and Saudi and other countries tried...oh wait, they were unable to stop it.

LIbya even resorted to using jet fighters to bomb smuggling hideouts. Did not work...

Humans are creatures of profit. Once a profit is to be made, people will do criminal activity.

I agree.

But the increment won't deter the smugglers either.

We have a big problem.

After series of successful struggling operations, the same suffering Nigerian masses will be arguing violently, online and at street corners, about who is richer in their communities between the coded smuggler/businessman, customs officer with big hotels in his name, police odogwus with huge pot belly, and civil defence bosses.

Above all, government is meant to find good solutions and not the easy way out. Why not at least make a serious attempt at curbing the smuggling problem? The smugglers and their criminal business partners on government-side live within our communities, Nigerians must take the battle to them. Otherwise, we are just cowards using Abuja as justification for our complicity. All those destroying Nigeria live within our respective communities where we hail them as our odogwus.

nairalanda1:


Someone has spoken the cold hard truth.

Etiher we sell fuel above the landing cost, or we will continue to feed the smugglers free money and free cash.

And before you come and start shouting 'Why can't government stop the smugglers...ask the Saudis, Venezuelans, Angolans, Iranians and especially Libya why they can't stop smuggling too? Are they run by Nigerian leaders?

I mean, I buy fuel at below N700 and then cross the border and sell that thing at N1400 or more. TELL ME, won't you be able to come home , bribe the customs men and women, and police, and civil defence, AND STILL MAKE A FAKKING PROFIT.


Yet at the end, most Nigerians say we should keep fuel below the landing cost because ;poverty. Yet these people won't do the same for their businesses because.....poverty.

If you want to end smuggling, etc, etc....STOP KEEPING SUBSIDY, AND FACE THE EFFING REALITY.

And if you think this makes me an APC supporter, you are either mad, or sick in the head.

It's time for mass protest.

These criminals don't even know what to say again about this fuel

ogododo:
https://nairametrics.com/2024/08/31/nnpc-must-sell-petrol-above-landing-cost-to-combat-smuggling-oil-minister

Isn't it a shame that we are still importing petrol into the Country in 2024 despite having crude oil?

Na wah. God save us from characters. So price has to be increased to stop smuggling? Foto! No be juju be dat?
OK ohh, I bought at 950 at ikeja, midnight yesterday.
Even if they make it 10k per liter (we are heading there), naira will only devalue more, and in 6 months they will be telling you the same story that subsidy is being paid, that landing cost is 15k. Is it that these people are so dense or incompetent to realize this?
Anyway when you have a bunch of rulers that have never had a real job but made wealth without enterprise, riches through government patronage, this is what you get.

nairalanda1:


Someone has spoken the cold hard truth.

Etiher we sell fuel above the landing cost, or we will continue to feed the smugglers free money and free cash.

And before you come and start shouting 'Why can't government stop the smugglers...ask the Saudis, Venezuelans, Angolans, Iranians and especially Libya why they can't stop smuggling too? Are they run by Nigerian leaders?

I mean, I buy fuel at below N700 and then cross the border and sell that thing at N1400 or more. TELL ME, won't you be able to come home , bribe the customs men and women, and police, and civil defence, AND STILL MAKE A FAKKING PROFIT.


Yet at the end, most Nigerians say we should keep fuel below the landing cost because ;poverty. Yet these people won't do the same for their businesses because.....poverty.

If you want to end smuggling, etc, etc....STOP KEEPING SUBSIDY, AND FACE THE EFFING REALITY.

And if you think this makes me an APC supporter, you are either mad, or sick in the head.

What about deploying advance technology to combat oil thief and smuggling? What about punishing corrupt custom officials to serve a lesson to others? What about hiring a machineries services to monitor our borders?

That was the same excuses before they remove the subsidy, but look at the country today. To even think that this useless government removed fuel subsidy with absolutely no impact on economy says alot about the policy.

Keep supporting the useless government, the monster you keep petting today may swallow you tomorrow.

Empty skull ministers just full the country

lol…the way these people campaign you go think say dem get solution to all the problems…dem just come worsen everything

Slow poke minister, he lacks ideas, how can smugglers be smarter than the govt. Customs😔

With all due respect, the first name of the Minister is a great influence on how he thinks.

Increase the price here to any level and that will not stop the smuggling because the next door neighbor has neither refinery nor crude oil. They rely soley on what is smuggled in.

Simple common sense.