Prince Tonye Princewill, former Rivers State governorship candidate, has criticised the organised labour for being too silent on the removal of the subsidy on petrol.
He said Nigerians expect to hear more from labour given the pains and hardship occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal by President Bola Tinubu.
Princewill who contested for Governorship during the 2015 election under the platform of the Labour Party said this during an interactive session with newsmen at his residence in Port Harcourt.
He stated that though subsidy removal was not peculiar to Nigeria, but the apex government’s decision to do so without putting the necessary measures in place to cushion its effect on the citizens was unfortunate.
Princewill who resigned from the All Progressives Congress before the 2023 elections emphasized that the fraud in the subsidy must be addressed.
He stated that the ssue of subsidy is deep. Countries subsidise all the time. But in this country, we have a subsidy and we found out that there was fraud in the subsidy.
So in removing the subsidy, what about the fraud? And then look at the pain on the people.
Speaking further, the businessman said, Subsidy removal is the removal of the fraud of subsidy.uL subsidy didn’t just come by surprise. So palliative measures, and countermeasures needed to have been put in place.
We have enough brains in this country to establish things that need to be put in place to make the pains of people a lot easier.
Princewill further said spending trillions of Naira subsidising fuel is ‘nonsensical’, saying, If you are not going to do that, then you have to have alternatives in place.
