Fellow Compatriots,
This is more than a quest for economic rights, it a quest for justice. This is not about fuel subsidy, it is about the ruling class’ war on the Nigerian masses. They cannot claim our country is broke when president Goodluck Jonathan continues to feed fat on N3 million worth of food everyday. They cannot claim to be broke when they increased the recurrent expenditure of the 2012 budget by another N92 billion. They cannot claim to be broke when the First Lady just spent N5billion furnishing an office. They cannot claim to be broke when in the whole budget and through out this period nothing has been said about their salaries and allowances.
What is the justice of our Senate President earning as much as 8 times the salary of president Obama of the United States? What is the justice of paying underworked lawmakers over N100 billion with less than 12 per cent of that taxed when the majority of our people are jobless and hungry?
They claim the downstream sector of the petroleum industry is infested with corruption. They claim the oil subsidy process has been hijacked by corrupt people. They are yet to prosecute let alone get a conviction for just one of those corrupt people. They are yet to clean up the inefficiencies of the petrol importation process. They want to transfer the cost and burden of corruption and inefficiencies of the process directly to Nigerians.
Subsidies are bad. The worst subsidy in Nigeria today is Political Subsidy. This is the first subsidy that must go. An American said yesterday on BBC Have Your Say she currently pays less than Nigerians for fuel. This is an American whose country works! This is an American who sees the roads her taxes have helped to build, she knows her country would always be there for her against terrorists and in deed everything works. We are in a country when the only existence of the government is oppression.
My people, we have been oppressed for too long! Defy them this time. Face their tanks, take a stand, fight for your dignity! Our president and his cohorts have their hands dirty! They feed on our common wealth. They want to expend our future for their fat salaries and administrative incompetence. This must not stand.
Fellow Nigerians, take a stand for your today, defend the future of your children. This is not deregulation. You cannot call it a deregulated market when you are just transferring the burden of the cabals directly to the people. Will you just sit and watch them completely strip you of your dignity or will you join other Nigerians and stand for justice? It is a choice only you must make! This is the hour of liberation, this is the moment of truth, this is the way of justice. A government that has chosen to destroy its own people is not a legitimate government. Any government that has lost the stamp of legitimacy from the people has become draconian, evil and illegal.
The days of talking are over, these are the days of walking the talk. Don’t listen to your parents. Their fears led us to where we are, it is time to fight for what is ours! The size of government must go down, the corruption in fuel importation must be cleaned up, the cabal whoever they are must be brought to book, the refineries must be made to work and only then can we begin to discuss a real and sincere deregulation process.
This is your fight. There are no activists anywhere to save you. This is the time for you to become your own messiah. Now take your place on the arc of history, call out to your neighbours and friends, the Nigerian morning of Justice has come!!!
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Let d struggle continue. We must not wait for things to hapen, we must make them hapen.
I like when nigerians write,stop decieving yourself all nigerians are corrupt. have been following rubben abatis page on the guardian back from 2003. When he entered into govt his mouth and story line changed. If truly u wanna be an activist, do little write ups and more actions….suck ass
Aluta continua. We will fight them non-stop until we impeach the one time shoeless monster. So, this is what we get for laughing at his unintelligent wife who could not construct simple sentence. God punish badluck and impatient jonathan
Aluta continua, we’ll fight to the last drop of our blood for our great grand children to feel the real fresh air, not GEJ’s so called fresh Air, that’s sucking our blood!!!
This is a clear indication that the ‘fresh air’ promised Nigerians has turned into a ‘highly toxic air’. The deprivation and pauperization of the down-trodden has further been aggravated by a government that is supposed to provide welfare to its citizens. Where in the world has this kind of madness ever happened? What is really wrong with our leaders? Have we suddenly turned to be their enemies for voting them into power? Where is the National Assembly? Where are the ‘fresh air’ advocates? This madness must be reversed in the interest of all Nigerians.
I love dis wif all my heart d tym has come for us to stand up to our future my only fear is how many nigerians will want to identify wif dis action.won’t dey act like cowards in their houses?will dey stand as one?am borthered I love my country and I feel pains for d poor mass.d govt av oppressed us enough!!!!!!!!!!
We have to figth for our right. This is the time,they are all terrorist including that useless man that call himself obasonjo this useless man is not goodluck but badluck that use our money to feed him family.
I want to encourage Nigerians especially youths not to be feeble or afraid at this point. These wickedness can not be allowed to stand. We must prove to our leaders that we are not animals and we can not be treated as slaves in our fatherland. We are Nigerians and we have a say.
God go purnish there generations,and are stupid wife that took 5billions to furnishing an office.
Am sorry ƒör nigerians who blive dis guy(Omojuwa)..we jst blive ? little we read witout tring 2 dig dip a little nd tink sme more…dis is all crap nd am outta here
Omojuwa, well done for educating the masses and encouraging us to take a stand. I agree with all you have written except “don’t listen to your parents”. You should have written “convince your parents”. Still, I am and will continue to fight for my right.
If you get to the corridors of power and you change your stance to align with the minority, know that we will be the same people to plot your downfall, just as you are plotting GEJ’s.
All the best.