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ORDINARILY, we should be giving the Muhammadu Buhari administration a pat on the back for “summoning the courage” to implement the full deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector and total withdrawal of petrol subsidies.

For over 20 years, we have agitated for this as means of ending fuel scarcity, black marketeering, frequent petroleum industry labour strikes and attendant sufferings. Successive regimes have failed to revive our comatose refineries. Only the private sector can establish and run refineries profitably and sustainably.

If our advocacy had been heeded, we would not have wasted the N10.413 trillion which the Federal Government claims has been spent in the past 14 years on petrol subsidy. This amount would have helped to ameliorate our infrastructure deficit and reduce our massive foreign borrowing. The Jonathan government had to back down when it found itself increasingly needing to call in the military to maintain law and order.

The recommendations of the Price Waterhouse Coopers, PwC, audit conducted in 2014 for a total paradigm reset for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has been jettisoned.

 

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