A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has slammed the federal government over fraudulent subsidy regime.
Speaking on Tuesday in Ikeja at the Nigeria labour Congress (NLC) rally to protest the government insensitivity to plight of lecturers and students in government universities, Falana said the the circumstances surrounding subsidy on petrol are shrouded in secrecy.
He also expressed disappointment that those in authority now, who he described as his age group, appeared to be keen on killing the education sector in the country.
Falana, who asked Nigerians not to buy the claim of paucity of funds being peddled by the government, said: “It is not true that the government has no money to fund education and other critical sectors. At the beginning of the year, the government said it would spend N443 billion on fuel subsidy, but now it has increased to N6.5 trillion.
‘’Also, we were told the daily petrol consumption was 32.8 million litres per day and later they said it was 100 million liters per day. If we are to believe their 100 million litres story, it would mean 2,000 tankers are taking the excess 68 million litres daily. Where are the tankers? Where are they taking such volume to?
He called on the President to stop globe-trotting and hold criminal elements who have milked the country dry tight and recover public funds in their possession.
“I commend the Nigeria Labour Congress for bringing out all workers today (yesterday) to protest against the insensitivity of our junketing president. As we are here now, he is on his way to Liberia to deliver a speech”