Shame of subsidy removers

I am a person that has enjoyed both Federal and Kano state state government's policy of subsidy on education.

I attended one of the best public secondary schools in Kano state.We were provided with majority of the textbooks we used as students which were returned on graduation from the school.We had both local and expatriate experienced teachers; and the best of every teaching requirement from well equipped laboratories to functional libraries.

My father paid less than N1000 as my school fees in secondary school and less than N10,000 as registration fee in the university.The same amount of money cannot pay the terminal school fees of a child in modest nursery school today!

The legacy of subsidy on education is gone.No state in the whole of Northern Nigeria can boost of providing chairs for to all the pupils in primary schools, talkless of other essential needs,because the politicians that benefited from subsidy on educationare not willing to extend the same gesture to the less privileged.

Now,they want to remove the remaining subsidy enjoyed by Nigerians,ie oil subsidy even though the best option to tackle the problem of depicit in government budget is addressing the issue of corruption bedeveiling the the oil and gas sector,which was discovered by recent senate hearing.It is surprising to me that the proposed removal of subsidy on oil is taking place during the tenure of a president who claimed to have no shoes as a child and has to trek long distance barefooted across rivers and lagoons to reach his school and was educated courtesy of government subsidy on education.

The politicians are telling us every day that we are moving towards the path of progress-from TRANSFORMATION to VISION 2020.Any rational person will admit that not much progress has been achieved throughout the 12 years of present civilian rule other than mere rhetorics.

The people that are insisting on removing all subsidies are not helping Nigeria.They are exercebating schism between the poor and the rich and aggravating ignorance and poverty among the poor.This can only breed more Boko Haram,Niger delta and OPC militants which government will continue to allocate more funds to security to tackle.What an absurdity! Abdullahi dahiru