Deep, Fast And Sustainable Learning Can Extricate Nigerians From The Petrol Quagmire: Hear Elon Musk And Peter Obi
The Oasis Reporters
October 12, 2024
One time governor of Anambra State and former Labour Party presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi appears to look with sympathetic understanding at his insistence on functional education to current reality by bemoaning the fate of Nigerians who yearned for the fixing of the nation’s Refineries.
The wishes didn’t materialize, but Africa’s biggest billionaire, Aliko Dangote but a brand new petroleum refinery.
Yet rather than solve the problems of the citizens, people are finding it difficult to purchase the Dangote refinery petrol due to its high cost. Most cars have been turned fast into antiquities.
He wrote on X.
Reversing the Sudden Fuel Price Increase:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1844642958273876067
As Nigerians continue to groan under extremely difficult economic conditions, largely caused by the Federal Government’s wrong policy choices, the NNPCL has once again raised the price of fuel (PMS) without providing any explanation.
This is both unfortunate and insensitive, considering the wide-ranging negative consequences for our economic survival and well-being.
This is neither how an economy’s resources should be managed nor how a nation should be governed. In this new measure, there is neither sound economics nor necessary compassion.
We are told that the NNPCL is now a limited liability company, regulated by agencies such as the NUPRC and NMDPRA, yet there seems to be growing confusion about the roles and responsibilities of the NNPCL and these regulating bodies.
Interestingly, both the NNPCL and the regulatory agencies are supposed to be under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria serving as the substantive Minister.
Who, in this arrangement, is regulating who? With the unprecedented but avoidable hardship that Nigerians are enduring, the responsibility for providing a full explanation, offering alternative options, and most importantly, reversing the sudden price hike falls squarely on the Honorable Minister of Petroleum Resources/President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
We hope and pray that he acts in the best interest of the majority of Nigerians, who are living under unnecessarily precarious conditions, and that he does so before his return from his working vacation.
To casually inflict such a draconian measure on the populace from the comfort of an annual vacation amounts to taking the people’s welfare lightly and for granted. A New and more compassionate Nigeria is indeed Possible! -PO
Meanwhile, Elon Musk who emerged from a well rounded educational system with the capacity to do unusual things and prosper by them has been making electric cars in his Tesla factories.
That means the cars if found in Nigeria would say “no thanks to Dangote refinery. They don’t use petrol.
Elon Musk has upped the ante and his firm has started building autonomous cars that have no steering. Uses no petrol and the Robot axis or Vans are just a phone call away. It gets one to its destination without stress and no driver.
Once it gains all the approvals and gains wide acceptability, the petrol in vogue today would soon be a relic of a bygone age.
Nigerians are waiting breathlessly, peeping at the breathtaking direction of the car of the future.
Greg Abolo
gregabolo@gmail.com
With X ( former Twitter)
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