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UPDATED WITH EYE WITNESS PHOTOS (LONDON) Nigerians woke up to a new year gift from the Presidency. Fuel prices doubled, causing transport costs to sky-rocket and has propelled prices across all sectors to spiral out of budget. For a populace already reeling from terrorist attacks inflicted in recent months by Islamic extremists who have stepped up their attack on Christians resident in the North, the legendary studied stoicism of Nigerians might have been taken for granted one time too many by government. Protests flared up all around the country from Students, Medical personnel, the Bar Association and – the Police. In Lagos state on Tuesday, 300 police men marched through the streets chanting anti- government slogans. A rash of protests broke out in the southern States of Edo, Ogun, Oyo states as well as the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. On Friday, protesters converged in front of the Nigerian High Commission in London, following protests in Ukraine. In the Kwara state capital Ilorin, a student was shot dead by Police, resulting in violent reactions. Facebook is agog with updates and calls for action, including one page that offers discounts on bulletproof vests for protesters.
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:07
Written by Daria Alawi
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Nigerians should be fighting for a non-govt manipulated SNC now, fuel subsidy removal & Boko Haram menace are just some of the numerous symptoms.
Sovereign National Conference now!
BUT at d same time
469 national assembly members gulp N1.2trillion
NIbillion is budgeted to feed GJ n friends dis year, 3 million to feed GJ daily
N1.7brillion to fuel same cars
200 million has been budgeted to water GJ gardens
n we all know how his wife spent 5billion to furnish an office!!!
Make God Almighty Punish to death all those who r making life hard for the masses whilst stealing n feeding fat on d massess very own nation’s money AMEN. Not to worry d curse causeless shall not come.
Please join d protest and God Bless u n answer our prayers in bringing about a turnaround
As passionate as they are about their rhetoric, the truth is that the sponsors of the subsidy removal school of thought are badly compromised: Ngozi means well but she is Bretton brain-washed (from decades of implementing IMF/WB imperialist schemes), Deziani needs to cover her tracks (PPRA scandal), Sanusi is out of touch with reality (by his own admission) and Jonathan has put his confidence in the arm of flesh.
We need an objective team to 'scatter and re-engineer' the entire deregulation strategy but before that, Jonathan should plug the holes, lead the structural readjustment by example (let us start with a year of made in Nigeria paper plates in Aso Rock), tell the Bretton Woods poison peddlers to go play with themselves and be his own man, OR JUST RESIGN!!!
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