A non-governmental organisation, Stand up Nigeria has described subsidy as fraudulent construct by cabals in government and the petroleum sector to aid them rob the country.
The group insisted that government should not fall to pressures for whatever reasons.

In a peaceful protest to the office of the Secretary to the government of the Federation, the group’s Secretary, Comrade Sunday Attah, in his speech declared that Subsidy Corruption came to a deserved end “after it became glaring to the present administration of President Buhari, who was brave enough to damn the consequences and pull the plug on the complex life support system that has sustained this criminality to the detriment of other sectors.”


“We are in a hurry to bury Subsidy Corruption even before it is certified thoroughly dead because we do not want to risk the cabals bringing in experts from the organised labour and compromised experts from the CSOs to revive an evil that is best dead.

“This abomination should be interred before it reanimates and cause further damages in our land. Our sincere hope is that the other productive sectors of the economy – education, health, transport, manufacturing and others – can now thrive with the death of Subsidy Corruption. Its death has ushered in an era of citizens taking more interest in governance and demandingaccountability”, Attah added.

‎”No blackmail should make the government revive this monster. Nigerians want subsidy payment and the corruption it typifies buried forever without the possibility of it resurrecting again. This outing today confirms to Mr President that Nigerian Civil Society Groups welcome the removal ofsubsidy”, he further said.

“We want to be free of the fraudulent groups and individuals that had hidden under it to feed fat to the detriment of the rest of the population”. Please Mr President on no account should Subsidy Corruption be revived. This appeal is especially against the backdrop that a few members of your cabinet have been promoting the idea that it was foreign currency support that was withdrawn and not subsidy”, he said.



Members of the group bore a casket showing that fuel subsidy was dead.

In his response, the Secretary to the government of the Federation promised to deliver the message to Mr. President, while assuring that the current administration was addressing palliatives in order to cushion the effect of subsidy removal.