Monday, 15 April 2019

NUPENG, PENGASSAN, advises Buhari on fuel subsidy

- President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to shun any counsel that is capable of destabilising the economy

- The advice was given in a statement on Sunday, April 14, by workers in the oil and gas sector

- The workers advised President Buhari to shun counsel on removal of fuel subsidy

Workers in the oil and gas sector on Sunday, April 14, advised President Muhammadu Buhari to shun any counsel that would destabilise or cause chaos in the economy.

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) gave the advice in a statement in Lagos, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

Legit.ng gathers that the statement was signed by Okugbawa Lumumba, PENGASSAN general secretary and Afolabi Olawale, NUPENG’s general secretary.

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The managing director, International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde had on April 12 called on the federal government to remove fuel subsidy because of low revenue mobilisation that existed in terms of tax to Gross Domestic Product.

They said that the IMF advice on how to recover Nigerian economy was worrisome as it had become counterproductive.

The statement read: “Any economic policy that is devoid of human feelings can lead to more social dislocations and upheavals, which will later become counterproductive as currently experienced."

The unions said that IMF had created panic in the country with associated hoarding of petroleum products, panic buying, skyrocketed increases in prices of goods and services in the country.

It said that earlier, the IMF chief praised the significant progress the nation had made in terms of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that increased by 1.9 per cent in 2018 from 0.8 per cent in 2017.

It said that the IMF was not considering the pains and agonies the people went through to achieve the gains of 2018, with almost two-thirds of the world’s hungriest people among Nigerians.

The unions also cautioned that imposing more stringent reforms in domestic revenue mobilisation including increase in VAT and securing more domestic oil revenues through subsidy removal was an attempt to destabilise the nation.

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The unions in the statement appealed to President Buhari to put in mind the current hardship the people were going through in their collective journey to economic recovery.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Saturday, April 13, called on Nigerians to stop panic buying of petrol and diesel as there was enough of the products in circulation.

Tayo Aboyeji, the NUPENG's southwest chairman, made the call in an interview in Lagos.

He said: “Nigerians should stop spreading and listening to rumours of government removing fuel subsidy and increasing pump price of fuel."

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