Federal Government Claims Things Would Have Been Worse if Subsidy Didn’t Go

The federal Government has said President Bola Tinubu needs more time to address the various challenges facing the nation.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris Malagi, said this today during a Television appearance.

He called on Nigerians to be patient with the reforms the Bola Tinubu government implemented, maintaining that these reforms would yield fruit in the long run.

While admitting that Tinubu is aware of the hardships Nigerians are facing as a result of the removal of fuel subsidies, Malagi reassured that the government is working tirelessly to reverse the trend.

Malagi said the government had, in the wake of the subsidy removal introduced some measures to curtail the impact of the move.

He listed some of them to include the wage awards to Federal Government workers and plans to roll out CNG buses across the country.

The Federal Government had argued that the impact of the subsidy was not felt by the masses as some select persons were benefiting from it.

According to the minister, security agencies are, however, working to bring the culprits who are referred to in most quarters as “subsidy thieves”