N5 fuel levy on all motorists: Nigerians flay Senate’s recommendation
http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Some Nigerians in Abuja on Friday flayed the Senate recommendation for a N5 fuel levy on every litre of petroleum or diesel imported into the country. The respondents expressed their views in separate interviews with newsmen in Abuja. Speaking to pressmen, Mr Adebayo Ojo, a resident noted that the present recession called for a reduction in petrol price and not an increment. Ojo, a commercial taxi driver, said that: “Government cannot possibly be thinking about increasing the petrol price when they know the harsh economic situation in the country. “The government should rather think of reducing the price else they will be calling Nigerians fools for being patient all this while. “We are not fools and government should not take us for granted. How can the senate be so mean to even contemplate a thing like that? “I personally will recruit people to take to the street if a thing like that should happen,’’ he said. Mrs Zainab Abu, a shop owner at Wuse marke...