Fellow citizens,
After watching the success of our North African brothers and sisters in toppling some regimes, it is worthy to note that they only got what they requested for which is the norm. They pursued their leader and are in care of equally as bad leadership right now. Fine it is a move toward democracy but we need to understand if they #Occupied till they actually got the democracy then that would indeed have been a better result for them and their efforts.

In our case here in Nigeria, A buildup of so many issues have let the Government feel they are now invincible and will act as they wish, I hope this their belief would be disproved by our protesting efforts. I believe we should not limit out protests to only reversal of the subsidy removal as if we get this at the end of these unfortunate deaths and suffering we would only be returning to the status quo of corruption and mismanagement that have plagued us for so long.

I think this would be a good juncture in our history for everyone to finally demand their rights and hold our well-meaning Goodluck led government to account so that come 2015 if they do not meet our demands they can be voted into oblivion.

A few things to demand before the strike is called off that I believe are more important than the fuel subsidy and would yield dividends in the future would be as follows. I hope others to contribute and this gets to out representatives

- 50% reduction in recurrent expenditure by the government and the savings committed to verifiable tangible infrastructure improvement ( i.e. if our learned friends can sit down with the budget and identify specific amounts that can be saved and allocated towards major projects then the government would have to agree to this before we return to normal. ) If this saves 500billion, then we can demand a 3 billion dollar power plant/refinery that all can see at a specified date.

- Autonomous EFCC/Prosecuting Agency with a special court and Prisonto tackle corruption solely.

- Yearly Time sheet from goverment stating their plans from now till MAY 2015 so that their achievements and failures can be transparent.


Ill stop there for now and hope we can all contribute

you r right. protest for protest sake seems senseless to me. even if we revert back to 65 naira what about corruption? even if we don't revert what about corruption? what about those who were responsible for the situation nigeria finds itself today? and if you follow the house debates closely and all other political programmes you would weep for the revelations that have come out.
after the fuel subsidy debate, the next topic was the budget and it came out that even though the government says that they want the fuel subsidy money to execute capital projects, the 2012 budget still has 73% recurrent expenditure, so it is likely that they will still use the extra money to fund the already bloated govt duplication of expenses and so on and so forth. with all these, how do we trust jonathan's govt?