Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has stated that these who opposed the fuel subsidy removal below former President Goodluck Jonathan are now those compelled to implement it.
Sanusi made the comment on the Oxford International Suppose Tank Management Convention on Tuesday.
“We discuss this stuff as a result of it’s essential; there’s a form of poetic justice that it is definitely the folks who led the Occupy Nigeria motion who ended up inheriting the issue and having to do it,” he stated.
Explaining why the Jonathan administration later compromised on the coverage, the previous Governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria stated the choice was pushed by safety issues on the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency.
“The one purpose the federal government compromised at the moment and did 50 per cent to 100 per cent was Boko Haram,” he defined.
“There have been hundreds of Nigerians on the streets in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, and different cities. There was a worry that sooner or later one among these suicide bombers would go to these Nigerians and detonate bombs, and you’ll have 200 corpses; it would now not be about subsidy,” he added.
