There was never Fuel Subsidy – ASUU

Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, the President of the Tutorial Workers Union of Universities (ASUU), says the esteemed tutorial group doesn’t subscribe to the notion of gas subsidy current inside the nation.

Throughout his inauguration, President Bola Tinubu declared that “subsidy is gone,” which subsequently led to a surge in costs and shortage of the product all through the nation.

Regardless of the federal government’s prior assertions that it might now not afford to subsidize funds, the President of ASUU expressed his bewilderment on the paradoxical state of affairs the place Nigeria is able to exporting crude oil however struggles to refine it. He shared these ideas whereas addressing a gathering on the Alex Ekweme Federal College in Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi State.

“We don’t consider that there’s gas subsidy. You possibly can’t be exporting crude oil for the previous 70 years, and you continue to can’t refine the crude oil and promote to your individuals on the Nigerian fee, not at greenback. Then, one thing is fallacious,” he mentioned on Wednesday on the sidelines of a lecture captioned, ‘Advancing Know-how by means of High quality Training, the ASUU Perspective’.

Moreover, Osodeke expressed his dismay over the nation’s lack of a useful refinery and criticized the exorbitant sums of cash expended on the present ones.

The ASUU chief mentioned “It isn’t rocket science to construct a refinery. When the nation intentionally refuses to keep up those they’ve however individuals [working there] are being paid,”

He added that over the previous three years or so, Nigeria has allotted trillions of naira in direction of refurbishing refineries, however sadly, none of them are operational. Surprisingly, smaller nations have efficiently established functioning refineries.

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Following the Federal Authorities’s affirmation of subsidy elimination, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Commerce Union Congress (TUC) have been engaged in negotiations.

Initially, they demanded a reversion to the earlier gas pump worth, however ultimately, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Commerce Union Congress (TUC) determined to droop their deliberate strike following a sequence of conferences with the federal government. ASUU, as highlighted by Osodeke, affirmed their alignment with the place of organized labour.

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