Senate President, David Mark yesterday warned that future attempts by the Federal Government to remove subsidy on petroleum products would be resisted by Nigerian if the funds accruing to the Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), is mismanaged.
Senator Mark, who made this known when he inaugurated the Senate adhoc committee on SURE-P chaired by deputy leader, Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi, tasked the panel on adequate oversight function of the programme.
The Senate President said, “What justification will be practical evidence of the things that you have done with the money that you realize from fuel subsidy? It is not a matter of statistics on pages of newspapers, it has to be what people can see and attest to. There should be clear evidence of things like improvement in empowerment of women and youth, improvement in healthcare for women and children, in mass transit.”
Speaking earlier, chairman of the newly inaugurated committee, Senator Ningi said “the committee will put in its best to ensure that adequate oversights, probity, transparency, accountability and to see to it that various projects and programmes in the purview of the SURE-P are implemented to the optimum benefits of Nigerians.”
I am very happy with the Senate President For this bold step He has taken to strengthen issues as it concerns probity, and transparency ,but it remains the issue of salaries of legistrators.
Any person in any position in Nigeria should see Him/Her selves as Servant to Nigerians not as a master.The Senate President is a well refined adept,and belongs to rare group.I am happy He is the leader of the apex House.
Long live the Senate President long live Nigeria.
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Tell, cus nothing has been done as promised. GIS placement has been stoped. We are still waiting to see the end result.
I stil maintn dat abduwaheed umar le nlc, aminu bello tambuwal led house of reps even peter esele led tuc shuld be blamed for any further looses in the downstream sector of the oil & gas. The are educated enough to understnd the logic on the subsidy removal but instead resorted to politics & thus the subsidy policy was bungled. The judgemnt of history on this matter wil not fevour the trio. Bet me. Sms only 08163099923
Abdulwaheed Umar Aminu, Aminu Tambuwal and Peter Esele should take the blame for the bungled subsidy removal policy & total deregulation of Nig oil & gas indst. The politics the trio played made Nig to see this policy as anti people but look at it gov stil pay, the products re stil cost, gov spends on prosecution of mkters & sure p misaprted. who is sufferng? Sms 08163099923