Buhari’s Government May Sell Fuel For N500 Per Litre Before The End of 2021 — Falana, SAN

*Says Nigeria Can Be Run And Managed Not By Aliens Forces Of
Destruction
*Says $1.5 Billion For The Rehabilitation Of Port Harcourt Refinery
Is Scam

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN has raised the alarm
concerning the plan by President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian
government to sell a litre of fuel at N500 before the end of the
year because the NNPC says that is the selling price in
neighbouring countries.

He made the prediction at the weekend in Abuja at a two-day
conference of People’s Alternative Political Parties Summit titled
” A New Nigeria Is Possible”

The legal icon who delivered the keynote address at the summit
accused the Nigerian government of being economical with the truth
on subsidy removal.

He said the government can no longer be trusted after the
announcement of full deregulation of fuel in 2020 leading to the
selling of fuel at N168 per litre.

Falana said, “Last year September this same government announced
that following the full deregulation fuel was going to be sold at
N168 per litre. Today we are being told that there will be full
deregulation again which will raise the price to N230 per
litre.

“(But) Let me predict here that if care is not taken the
government intends to sell fuel at N500 per litre before the end of
this year.”

He accused the government of destroying the economy and
devaluing the naira through the dollar-based economic system being
run by General Muhammadu Buhari’s regime.

The rights lawyer said the summit was aimed at challenging the
worsening security situation, devaluation of national currencies,
mass unemployment, and increasing lack of good governance.

He added that a new Nigeria has to be founded on the platform of
social justice and there was the need to collaborate with
like-minded progressive forces and reposition Nigerians to take
back power.

He said ” We want to take Nigeria back from the soiled hands of
political buccaneers and that is the essence of the meeting.

“That is why we believe that a new Nigeria is possible that will
be run and managed by the Nigerian people and not by aliens forces
of destruction”

Falana said Nigeria can be run on the basis of people’s oriented
programmes and policies instead of neoliberal policies of the
Buhari government dictated by the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund (IMF).

He added that the mismanagement of the economy by imperialist
forces and their local collaborators has continued to increase
poverty in the country despite the nation’s enormous resources.

The learned silk further added that “the sum of $1.5 billion for
the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt purportedly approved by the
Federal Executive Council is illegal in that it has not been
appropriated by the National Assembly pursuant to sections 59 and
81 of the Constitution.”

He said the National Assembly should request the President to
propose a money bill for the said sum of $1.5 billion. However,
before passing the bill the National Assembly should conduct a
public hearing where all options will be considered in the national
interest. For instance, at the public hearing, ASCAB will show that
the Federal Government can buy a new refinery with greater capacity
than the Port Harcourt for the same sum of $1.5 billion.”

*Says Nigeria Can Be Run And Managed Not By Aliens Forces Of
Destruction
*Says $1.5 Billion For The Rehabilitation Of Port Harcourt Refinery
Is Scam

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN has raised the alarm
concerning the plan by President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian
government to sell a litre of fuel at N500 before the end of the
year because the NNPC says that is the selling price in
neighbouring countries.

He made the prediction at the weekend in Abuja at a two-day
conference of People’s Alternative Political Parties Summit titled
” A New Nigeria Is Possible”

The legal icon who delivered the keynote address at the summit
accused the Nigerian government of being economical with the truth
on subsidy removal.

He said the government can no longer be trusted after the
announcement of full deregulation of fuel in 2020 leading to the
selling of fuel at N168 per litre.

Falana said, “Last year September this same government announced
that following the full deregulation fuel was going to be sold at
N168 per litre. Today we are being told that there will be full
deregulation again which will raise the price to N230 per
litre.

“(But) Let me predict here that if care is not taken the
government intends to sell fuel at N500 per litre before the end of
this year.”

He accused the government of destroying the economy and
devaluing the naira through the dollar-based economic system being
run by General Muhammadu Buhari’s regime.

The rights lawyer said the summit was aimed at challenging the
worsening security situation, devaluation of national currencies,
mass unemployment, and increasing lack of good governance.

He added that a new Nigeria has to be founded on the platform of
social justice and there was the need to collaborate with
like-minded progressive forces and reposition Nigerians to take
back power.

He said ” We want to take Nigeria back from the soiled hands of
political buccaneers and that is the essence of the meeting.

“That is why we believe that a new Nigeria is possible that will
be run and managed by the Nigerian people and not by aliens forces
of destruction”

Falana said Nigeria can be run on the basis of people’s oriented
programmes and policies instead of neoliberal policies of the
Buhari government dictated by the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund (IMF).

He added that the mismanagement of the economy by imperialist
forces and their local collaborators has continued to increase
poverty in the country despite the nation’s enormous resources.

The learned silk further added that “the sum of $1.5 billion for
the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt purportedly approved by the
Federal Executive Council is illegal in that it has not been
appropriated by the National Assembly pursuant to sections 59 and
81 of the Constitution.”

He said the National Assembly should request the President to
propose a money bill for the said sum of $1.5 billion. However,
before passing the bill the National Assembly should conduct a
public hearing where all options will be considered in the national
interest. For instance, at the public hearing, ASCAB will show that
the Federal Government can buy a new refinery with greater capacity
than the Port Harcourt for the same sum of $1.5 billion.”