Mr.President,compliment of the season.As a concerned Nigerian Kid that loves his nation so much and wouldnt want something like the Arab spring or anything that will affect national peace to happen.I want to tell you,something i think you know,that the citizens do not trust their government(very bad),your promises are counted as "here they go again,making promises they wont keep", anything about money,what comes to their minds is how much are these people going to embezzle again.
When,i saw the candidiates for the April elections,the amount of people that believed in you for a new dawn amazed me and i was almost choked my the "vote Goodluck Jonathan " people around me. But with the little time you have spent ,i am still caught in between the middle for maybe i should have supported them or my apathy was justified,with ASUU strike affecting the continuation of my schooling,Massacre by the Boko Haram brothers,national insecurity, high level of corruption etc.
My main reasons for contacting you however, is on the matters of the removal of fuel subsidy.It will be highly inconsiderable for you to think of removing subsidy at this time when tensions are high(as a result of insecurity) and people are barely managing to combine security and business.Your excuse is that it is becoming unbearable for the government to bear, but the questions to you are, the cost of running the government is "highly high",i read about the amount to be used in ASO ROCK for feeding alone ha!, aw do you think those that can afford daily meals will feel when you tell them you want to remove subsidy and increase subsidy that will result in increase in price of virtually everything, stationary for the vice president runs into millions(what kind of stationary are that), what effect is the security votes on the life of an average Nigerian,multiple foreign travels with little or no tangible effect on the average Nigerian,So much of high unemployment and people are managing ,still you want to increase their hardship, the subsidy comes from the cost of refining crude outside Nigeria;the people cant see any of their refineries working at full capacities and is not looking like changing anytime soon,the list of obvious obstacles is endless,hence you have to understand that doing this you want to put your name on the hatred list of many for life and this defies you reason for being a leader,when the led hate their leader.
The idea of removing subsidy might be the best for the nation,but all these issues have to be settled, the people have to believe that they are not the only ones making sacrifices(cost of running govt should be reduced to the barest minimum). The people shouldnt be made to feel as if,running a government they are not feeling the impact yet is considered more important than a subsidy that to an extent affects their lives positively(even though you do not believe), by removing that to remove cost and leaving a government that is very expensive.
Make sure we have a working refinery, and imports little or none. 150 Naira per litter is practically too expensive for the sixth largest producer of crude in the world and has no reserve.The other main problem is that the people do not trust the government to make proper and effective use of the funds accrued from subsidy removal but rather take it as another opportunity to have more funds to embezzle.when prices go up,they dont come down in NIGERIA you know! PROVE TO NIGERIANS THAT YOU ARE FAITHFUL IN LITTLE, AND THEY WILL GLADLY MAKE SACRIFICES TO GIVE YOU MORE TO WORK WITH
