Subsidy Removal: Sensitize Citizens, NOA Charges Field Officers

By Mosope Kehinde

As part of efforts to ensure Nigerians understand the government’s policies on subsidy removal and its benefits to the socio-economic development of the nation, the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Oyo State has organised an in-house training for its field officers.

Speaking at the training held at the Agodi office of the agency, Oyo State director, National Orientation Agency, Mr Kayode Odedokun who examined the basic and long time benefits of subsidy removal said government can no longer subsidize fuel pump price especially for neighboring countries

Mr Odedokun said the fuel subsidy was only beneficial to a few sets of people who were feeding fat on the nation’s resources.

“It is within our ambit to ensure that Government policies and programmes are well understood by the populace and what is germane presently is the challenges people are faced with the removal of fuel subsidy”

Mr Odedokun said NOA in Oyo State is embarking on massive sensitization of residents across the State, especially at the grassroot to intimate them on the good intentions of the Federal government.

While appealing to Nigerians to be more patient with the government, the agency’s deputy director of programmes, Dr Olukemi Afolayan expressed confidence that the subsidy removal would bring about infrastructural development, improved allocation, provision of basic amenities and discourage smuggling of petroleum products to neighboring countries.

“We are charging them to move into the field to meet with all relevant stakeholders and let them know most of the benefits. 

“Subsidy being paid by the government, citizens are not benefitting, oil cabals are the ones reaping the benefits” she said.

Dr Afolayan who identified religious, traditional leaders as well as youth and women organizations in communities as major Stakeholders in the grassroot mobilization, urged the NOA field officers to redouble their efforts at sensitizing the public on the benefits of fuel subsidy removal.

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