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Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by Ababbio: 7:49pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
The federal in other to crushing the effect of transportation on the public particularly the rural dwellers, due to hike in fuel price, has said, it would distribute 2, 000 buses. This was made known by the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs Dr.George Akume, in an interactive section with relevance stakeholders of cooperative societies in Nigeria, on Friday, at his office in Abuja. He said the initiative in a collaborative effort of his Ministry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and other agencies in the government. Akume, further explained that, the ministry had to tske the decision to pass through cooperative entities to ensure the materialisation of the project, instead of issuing loans to individuals which might delay prompt execution of the project. “Basically we do recognise the fact that when you give out loans to individuals, sometimes you have the difficulty of recovery when cooperative is involved, it becomes easier to manage the facility “The whole essence of the initiative is to ensure that our rural force has access to a transportation facility, now that there is a slight adjustment of the price of fuel. “We do recognise that some transport businessmen can decide to take advantage of fuel increase over Nigerians. “So when this is implemented, we believe the initiative will do quite a lot to stabilise the prices for the benefits of the people", he said. He noted that, there is no way Nigeria as a country can be promoted without transportation, saying that his the reason president Muhammadu Buhari has been working very hard in the aspect of road, rail and air transportation. Also, Mr Olakunde Jeff, Project Coordinator, Cooperative Asset Scheme, said the federal government had given the buses to cooperative societies at a very good price for onward distribution to interested members of the society. “The essence of everything is that now that we have a new pump price, we want to ensure that the effect on the masses is on a minimal level and that is the essence of the first 2, 000 buses. The initiative, according to Jeff would also mitigate the effect of challenges of transportation faced by rural farmers, even as he assured that they would receive greater attention to the programme. He added that members of the public would also benefit from the project. Like in the case of a van, farmers who are under the cooperative movement will be given the van to convey their farm produce from the farm to the road and they are expected to pay back. “There will be allocation of buses to other cooperative groups to run transportation businesses, “ he said. NAN reports that President Muhammadu Buhari on Sept.7, said the payments for petrol subsidies which accrues to a trillion Naira annually, have become unsustainable. Source: https://insidenaija.com.ng/fuel-subsidy-fg-set-to-distribute-2000-buses-to-crushing-effect-on-transportation/
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Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by Nobody: 8:04pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Govt of will, Set, To ![]() |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by Simplyleo: 8:16pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
[s] Ababbio:[/s] This should pass as the dumbest of fed govt action in a very long time. Nigerians are crying over fuel price increase, these ones are talking about distribution of buses, huh? So will the buses move without fuel? Will the transport fare not be based on the fuel prices? Are Nigerians complaining about shortage of vehicles? Will the buses also address other uses of fuel like generators in this era of almost zero power supply from phcn? I don't understand how a patient will be complaining of stomach-ache and the doctor will be planning to treat skin rashes. ![]() 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by yerokunphilips: 8:17pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Simplyleo: |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by ggirl4real: 8:58pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
This is a welcome development only if the initiative will not be hijacked. |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by inoki247: 9:03pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Me I don't even understand shey diz people go dey read PDP Manual ni dey ar just repeating d same thing... Abi no b Bus dem too roll out den 1 Like |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by Wiseandtrue(f): 9:03pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Ababbio: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How ![]() The Federal government will sell fuel to them at a lower rate ![]() Federal government will maintain the vehicle for them ![]() The driver's will not pay levies ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This project is designed to fail from the beginning, not hating just stating facts Those into transportation can explain better |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by IamWonderful: 9:05pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Where the buses Jonathan distributed then 1 Like |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by Luckydubby7(m): 9:15pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
To how many states. Even 5000 buses will not enough for Lagos alone. |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by Maxymilliano(m): 9:19pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Will the buses be operating freely or how will the provision of additional buses solve the effects of next level hardship imposed on Nigerians by this insensitive government. ![]() |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by CornerBot50: 9:35pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Nonsense without ingredient |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by duality(m): 10:02pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Someone is pushing for contract to supply buses. |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by Difrent: 11:01pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Simplyleo: mass transit buses will lessen the effect of petrol price increase on POOR MASSES......they will be cheaper with only marginal increase from the current rates,hence POOR MASSES will not feel the effects much.....the fuel subsidy ONLY FAVOURS THE RICH / AVERAGE Folks who could afford a car and fuel it......if you could afford to fuel a car, go for it , if not go with public transport which is cheaper anyway...... Bro , even organised Labour supports mass transport schemes like this |
Re: Fuel Subsidy: FG Set To Distribute 2,000 Buses To Crushing Effect On Transport by GamalNasser: 11:11pm On Sep 11, 2020 |
Nigerian govt Should stop these needless lies |
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