DControversiWeal human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr. Mike Ozokheme has described as foolishness the decision of President Muhmmadu Buhari to remove subsidy from the petroleum sector.

Ozokheme said the development, which had jerked up the price of the Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol from N86 to N145 was a clear attempt to punish ordinary Nigerians.

Speaking with Vanguard in Abuja on Friday, the outspoken lawyer said the decision of government was insensate, foolish, unsympathetic and anti-people.

Ozokheme wondered why the APC-led government set out to impoverish the people who voted for them in the last year general election.

“The recent increase in the price of fuel from N86 to N145 is the most insensitive, foolish, unsympathetic and anti-people decision the PMB government has yet taken in its flip-flop one year of clueless and directionless government.

“At a time Nigerians are already groaning under a grotesque over 500% increase in prices of ordinary consumables with the miserly non living wage of N18,000 unaltered, it is inconceivable that government would add to the pains, anguish, pangs and and sufferings of the ordinary Nigerians whose only crime is that “voted” for “change”.

“This government has indecently reversed all its promises to the Nigerian people, treating them as inconsequential nonentities in its governance index.

“It is not about whether there are advantages in the concrete. It is simply about honor, dignity and integrity in fulfilling election promises which constitute a pact, pactum sunt servada (agreements must be respected) with the Nigerian people,” he lamented.

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