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Fuel Subsidy: Why Buhari should be impeached – Sanusi Lamido

 

The Former Emir of Kano state, Sanusi Lamido has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is meant to be impeached for paying millions of dollars on fuel subsidies without appropriation.

He disclosed that this is contained in Nigeria’s Constitution.He stated this while speaking virtually as a panelist on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the just concluded Nigerian Economic Summit held in Abuja.

In his words: “Every year, the government spends millions upon millions of dollars on fuel subsidies without appropriation. Under the constitution, this is enough ground to impeach the President. But nobody is holding them to account. The National Assembly is not holding them to account,” he said.

The former CBN Governor continued: “Those in government must understand that there are times that you have to make some decisions not because they are popular but because they are right. We have to decide to run a developmental state and not a rental state; not a populist state.”

“We are pursuing a populist policy: we want to have cheap fuel, cheap electricity, a strong Naira. That is populism. At the end of the day, what price are we paying by taking money out of education in order to subsidise petroleum products?”.

“This money coming from petrol belongs to the federation account, and the federal government doesn’t have the constitutional right to pay subsidy on behalf of the federation. So it is a fundamental constitutional issue because this is money that should go to the federal, states and local governments. Yet money that belongs to the federation is carried out as federal government expenditure. So, there are so many complex issues, legal and economic issues. We need to stop these issues” he said.

Source: Politics Nigeria

Oluwasegun Adesuyi

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