Sunday, April 22, 2012
Full Report of the House Fuel Subsidy Probe
It is hardly any surprise to confirm what most Nigerians knew from the
beginning of the fuel subsidy wahala--that the Nigerian political system
is riddled with corruption and the removal of the fuel subsidy was an
unfair attempt to penalize ordinary Nigerians for the excesses and
profligacy of the government officials and their crony businessmen and
women. The House of Representatives probe has documented some of the
ways in which the crony system operates. It has identified some of the
culprits. The report should point out to the Goodluck Jonathan
administration that business as usual is no longer tenable. It should
be used as the first step in identifying the processes and procedures
appropriate for cleaning house in the petroleum sector. It should also
be the first in the lineup of probes that would be used to root out
corruption in Nigeria. Nothing less is acceptable. For the full report
of the probe,
see: http://premiumtimesng.com/news/4747-premium_times_presents_the_full_oil_subsidy_probe_report.html
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There is no part of Nigeria that is not riddled with corruption and inefficiency, fraud and unthinkable mismanagement; the fuel subsidy scam is only one minor element in a complicated dance of death. Consider the $16B Obasanjo power scam. At the end of that probe and media brouhaha, nothing came out of it. Not a single individual was prosecuted successfully or unsuccessfully. Also, consider the $12b oil windfall during Ibrahim Babangida's reign; whatever came out of it. The real issue here is why waste so much public resources in conducting a probe and releasing the report and no-one does a thing about that report. Nigeria is a failed country like no other and Goodluck Jonathan is indeed confirming that he has no business being where he is today: he is indeed a dog in a manger.
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