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WHAT ARE GOVERNORS DOING TO IMPROVE CONDITION OF LIVING OF THEIR PEOPLE SINCE REMOVAL OF SUBSIDY, WHICH FOLLOWED INCREASE IN FEDERAL ALLOCATION, NIGERIANS ARE ASKING ?


Since removal of subsidy on Premium Motors Spirit (PMS) by Tinubu Administration, living condition of Nigerians has continued to get worse. Cost of transpiration has increased. So has cost of foodstuffs and other commodities, including essential services. This development has left Nigerians wondering what Governors are doing to assuage their suffering, more so that they owe them the duty to attend to their welfare. 

More to this is the fact that part of monies saved from payment of subsidy by Federal Government have been added to States, which comes as Allocation. It is only right that increase in allocation to States leads to corresponding increase in performance - aimed at bringing succour to the people, something majority of Nigerians have yet to see.

Knowing that subsidy removal would naturally translate into high cost of transportation, goods, especially foodstuffs, cement and the likes, services, one may expect that Governors would put in place, strategic, practical and realistic measures to cater for what is to come. Providing alternative means for transporting people, goods and services other than regular cars that use fossil-fuels, comes to mind on the other hand, and boosting Agriculture by way of timely provision of fertilizer, tools and equipment, including improved seedlings and extension services at affordable price, while introducing dry farming on the other hand. 

Prof. Umara Babagana Zulum of Borno State has keyed into transportation by investing hugely. He has purchased electric cars for use in the State, and has engaged Mustapha Abubakar Gujibo's Phoenix Renewable Energy Group to convert petroleum-poawred buses to solar/electric-powered ones. 

The company now manufactures and maintain solar/electric tricycles, generators and buses used for transportation at affordable rate. It is no wonder that Borno State, in spite of insurgency that has cost citizens undeserving losses and trauma, is less hit by effects of subsidy removal. 

Buying petroleum-poawred cars for public transportation system, which some of the States have done cannot yield desired result considering cost of fueling and maintaining them. Electric/solar vehicles have less running and maintainance cost, also save our environment since there is no emission of carbon monoxide from them. 

Ideal Reporters believes there are many Mustapha Gujibos in nearly all the States in the country. Governors can engage them - as did Zulum, thereby causing more productivity, creating direct and indirect jobs for the youth and reducing the ripple effects of subsidy removal.

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