SURE-P: SURE SCAM - Steam

"After 29-months of removal of the non-existing subsidy from our petroleum, neither has a block been laid for new refineries and nor has the existing ones experienced any overhauling, we still experience fuel scarcity and we are yet to feel the dividends of the non-existing subsidy removal and and until we stop to forget our pains and the inflictors, Nigeria would remain in a standstill". 

The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) was designed to cushion the effects of the calamity and discomfort the President Jonathan administration imposed on the Nigerian masses by promising that our refineries would start to work at maximum capacity after 18-months, while the price would be reversed and petroleum would be made available at need.

In addition, Nigerians were deceived that the subsidy would be heavily invested in the construction of New refineries while the existing ones would experience a total overhauling, Construction of Roads, Organising vocational training, Provision of Mass transit buses across the country but it should interest us all that "After 29months of removal of the non-existing subsidy from our petroleum, a block is yet to be laid for a new refineries and neither has the existing ones experience any repairs or overhauling, we still experience fuel scarcity and we are yet to feel the dividends of the non-existing subsidy removal and until we stop to forget our pains and the inflictors, Nigeria would remain in a standstill.
Having said the above, alot runs through my mind at the mention of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), beginning with the orchestrated fraud which the programme was built on, the popular financial mishandling that almost enveloped the programme, recruitment of member into the board, enlisting of the beneficiaries, the partially voluntary resignation of the Chairman of the board (Christopher Kolade) which was attached to his ageing state among others...

Just like yesterday in the early hours of the January 1, 2012 when President Jonathan gave Nigerians the shock of their lives by announcing a removal of the non-existing subsidy from petroleum and its by-products which gave birth to an assemblage of concerned Nigerians at different locations across the country expressing their displeasure through peaceful mass action which lasted for few days but to little avail because the pump price was reduced from the skyrocketed price to #97 in cities like Lagos and Abuja while it is still sold for about #140 in rural areas in the country.

Nigerians are too quick to forget and this gives me alot to worry because until we stop to forget our pains and the inflictors, Nigeria would remain in a standstill.