{"id":122354,"date":"2019-05-31T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122354"},"modified":"2019-05-31T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:36:41","slug":"subsidy-what-buhari-should-do-as-petroleum-minister-sen-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122354","title":{"rendered":"Subsidy: What Buhari should do as Petroleum Minister – Sen. Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s inability to address the issue of fuel subsidy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Sani said Buhari, who is the Minister of Petroleum Resources, should have addressed the issue \u201cby now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmaker stated this while contributing to a debate on a report for the payment of subsidy arrears to some oil marketers on the floor of the Senate on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He also urged the country to emulate Ghana and start refining its petroleum products.<\/p>\n

Sani stressed that until Nigeria starts refining its crude, the \u201ccircle of exploitation\u201d would continue.<\/p>\n

According to Sani: \u201cThe issues of subsidy has been lingering. Until we start refining our crude oil this circle of exploitation will be ongoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president is the minister of petroleum resources, we thought by now he should have been able to address these issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cRefineries built more than three, four decades ago are still lying fallow and we are waiting for Dangote to finish his refinery.<\/p>\n

\u201cRefining crude is not rocket science rocket science, if Ghana is refining its product why are we still not. A government that opposes subsidy is still paying for it, when will this end?\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s inability to address the issue of fuel subsidy in Nigeria. Sani said Buhari, who is the Minister of Petroleum Resources, should have addressed the issue \u201cby now.\u201d The lawmaker stated this while contributing to a debate on a report for the payment of subsidy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1524],"class_list":["post-122354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-shehu-sani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}