Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, has called on Nigerians not to allow the nationwide protest against the removal of fuel subsidy override national security.
Amadi who made this call in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP in Abuja, also maintained that people should not allow dependence on fuel subsidy rob them? of the bigger issue of? government reform.
“Our concern is that we should not let the subsidy protest override our national security issue. I will say that we see this as a trigger for deepening some of the reforms that the President indicated in his speech,” he said.
Amadi who said he was in support of the policy, noted that Nigerians were not totally against the policy but the timing. “What we hear Nigerians say is that they are worried about the timing, process and use of the funds. At the CSO meeting we had with the President, we made it clear to him that there is general mistrust of government and he realised that.”