Hitting the wrong note

When the pianist hits the wrong notes while playing to music the music turns to noise. And as we know noise hurts the ear. This is the same scenario playing in the executive arm of government. The removal of the fuel subsidy is a stab in the back when consultation is still on-going. Whenever I look at the replay of the town hall meeting, I always look forward to the body language of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala when she was asked when the subsidy will be removed. She is such a liar and I won’t ever believe anything that comes from ‘Madam President’. I call her that name because I suspect she is in charge. Or is it because her life seems to hang on the implementation of the subsidy removal?

Everyone almost bought the arguments the economic team presented to us at the town hall meeting but the government due to its disregard for the people used its hand to scuttle what would have been a fruitful dialogue. The counter measures; the interviews by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on BBC is a desperate attempt to salvage a situation beyond their hands.

The advisers to the President are doing a bad job with the utterances coming from them and the president himself. It’s doing lots of damage to the person of the president as well as the presidency.

I can’t imagine the president calling those against fuel subsidy removal ordinary Nigerians while a minister called them ill-informed. I wonder if the presidential advisers ever say the truth to the president. Truth be told, the president is hated and his policies are not only unpopular but questionable.

The first step to take to redeem any situation Nigeria might be is to tackle corruption. This can be done by prosecuting the so called cabal. It’s stupid for a policeman to tell me ‘a civilian’ that the man going is a thief. The police should act and catch the thief not just telling me.

Read: Hitting the Wrong Note II