The Trade Union Congress has called on the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to investigate the entire subsidy scheme in the country.
Rivers State Chairman of the TUC, Mr. Chika Onuegbu, who described the fuel subsidy payment scheme as fraud, explained that the programme was framed in favour of oil marketers.
Explaining that the oil marketers were holding the country to ransom, the state TUC chairman urged Buhari to investigate every kobo paid in error as subsidy and punish offenders.
Onuegbu, who spoke in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, argued that oil marketers were blackmailing the Federal Government to pay them claims even when the government disagreed with their figures.
“The whole subsidy scheme should be thoroughly investigated by the incoming government. Much of the fuel subsidy payment is fraud and the PPPRA template is deliberately framed in favour of the marketers.
“The marketers are essentially blackmailing the Federal Government to pay them their claims notwithstanding the fact that the government does not agree with their figures.
“They are simply holding the country to ransom and this must be stopped. The incoming government of General Buhari should investigate the subsidy scheme.
“Buhari should recover every kobo paid in error or fraudulently and punish any person who has stolen from the subsidy,” Onuegbu added.
He, however, expressed the need for the country to decide on the issue of subsidy payment.
According to him, “We must also as a country decide whether we must continue with fuel subsidy or find better alternatives.”
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