SUBSIDY REMOVAL; WHAT PRESIDENT TINUBU SHOULD DO BY AZEEZ TEMITOPE.

Fuel price Hike? Yes we called for it. Its one of the effect of deregulation. Marketers now determine price not government. 

Call for palliatives? Yes, it is necessary to reduce the impact of the deregulated market. However, as the government is working of palliatives for all, palliatives must be encouraged in the oil sector pending the start of local refineries. This palliatives should come in term of tax reduction and removal to some extent on importation of fuel since we are still depending on importation of refined fuel. This tax relief will not only effect reduction in final price of fuel which will benefit all, it will also encouraged investors in that line and probably improve their competition and supply which will at the long run reduce the price. 

What we are witnessing now is a phase, and it will pass. To destroy is easy but to rebuild is usually difficult and harsh, so, the renewed hope is here to rebuild as such it will be difficult at start but ease with time....Yoruba will say, tita riro la ma n ko la. Getting a good tattoo comes with pain but with perseverance the tattoo will come out good. 

Part of what the government need now is to improve their communication with the citizenry. Politics is still around and the losers of last election are still hanging around searching for error to change and distort the narratives, and In fact mislead citizens with a political coloration that their styles or would have been better.

 Every agency involved in the oil sector as well as the media team of this government must be on their toes. Not just to communicate the changes, but educate and enlighten the citizens in specifics devoid of ambiguities. In clear terms and languages that the poorest of the citizens can understand. This path seems prosperous but though, rough but ray of hope and a better and happy ending.

Ogbeni Temitope Azeez.