{"id":57890,"date":"2022-01-21T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=57890"},"modified":"2022-01-21T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:12:34","slug":"fuel-subsidy-removal-gen-abdulsalami-issues-strong-warning-to-buhari-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/fuel-subsidy-removal-gen-abdulsalami-issues-strong-warning-to-buhari-govt","title":{"rendered":"Fuel subsidy removal: Gen. Abdulsalami issues strong warning to Buhari govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd.) has warned that the proposed fuel subsidy removal will cause further harm to Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulsalami spoke on Thursday at the 19th Daily Trust Summit in Abuja, pointing out that the country is already facing challenges on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n<p>The Buhari administration has made public its plan to stop the payment of fuel subsidy by June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>However, many stakeholders, including the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, feel the move is insensitive and wrongly timed as the citizens are already going through untold hardship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnemployment or underemployment remain at record levels,\u201d General Abdulsalami said, adding \u201cand over 80 million Nigerians are still caught up in needless poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of these tend to have negative effects on security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, Nigeria now faces a food security crisis that is compounded by the COVID-19 global pandemic and the banditry in many States in Northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of these have disrupted the fragile value chains across the country, and negatively impacted the ability of Nigerians to produce, process and distribute food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result is a continued rise in the prices of food items, beyond the reach of many Nigerian families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn top of all these, fuel prices are expected to rise significantly in the coming months as announced last November by the NNPC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know when this happens, as the government has planned, it will push many millions deeper into poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd.) has warned that the proposed fuel subsidy removal will cause further harm to Nigerians. Abdulsalami spoke on Thursday at the 19th Daily Trust Summit in Abuja, pointing out that the country is already facing challenges on multiple fronts. 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