Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, has questioned the benefits Nigerians have derived from the removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Falana raised the concerns while speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, urging Nigerians to demand accountability from the Federal, state and local governments over the utilisation of increased revenues following the subsidy removal.
The senior lawyer questioned why the additional revenue could not be channelled into addressing the country’s infrastructure deficit, particularly road rehabilitation.
He noted that state governments had previously undertaken road repairs and subsequently sought refunds from the Federal Government.
Falana also warned against a return to what he described as the “era of the fuel subsidy scam,” insisting that Nigerians deserved to know how the savings from subsidy removal were being spent.
“Where are they? We must begin to ask questions of the local government, the state government and the Nigerian government.
“If you say we are making more money, we don’t want to go back to the era of the fuel subsidy scam. Where are the benefits? It’s a fallacy being told to wait and wait and wait. People are dying,” he said.
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