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Fuel subsidy slowing Nigeria’s growth – Sanusi

by Tiseer Agenawua
October 27, 2021
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Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi II: A Phoenix rises, by Muhammad Abu Ihsan

Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi II

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Former Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has said Nigeria is paying a heavy price by taking resources meant for critical sectors to spend on subsidy payments.

Sanusi said the country needs to prioritise expenditure on sectors such as healthcare and education, and not spending on debt service, fuel subsidy, overheads on the National Assembly.

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He said this in Abuja on Tuesday at the 27th Nigerian Economic Summit (NES).

21st CENTURY CHRONICLE reports that the federal government paid N714 billion as payment for petrol subsidy in the last seven months.

Sanusi, a former governor of the central bank, said petrol subsidy payments are slowing the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria by 2030.

The SDGs are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to end poverty, reduce inequality and build more peaceful, prosperous societies by 2030.

“At the level of the state, we have to decide what the priority is. So long as our spending sends the wrong signals and the bulk of our resources are going to the wrong areas, we are not going to reach the goals of the SDGs,” he said.

“If we do not as a nation, at the level of leadership, understand that development is about human beings; everything we are doing will come back and hurt us.

“So, the biggest accelerator is having a political leadership that understands that the state should be developmental and not a popular state.

“For the last 20-30 years, we have turned the state into a populous and righteous state, the focus has to be interrogated.”

Sanusi said the country needs to build a national consensus and the consciousness has to be at the top — the governorship and legislators have to agree.

“We need a mind change. It is something that the states need to exit. For those poor people, whoever is sitting; the governor or the state should think of those people first,” he added.

“When you do that is when you make the right investment in education, health and the right policies that will help us to reduce poverty. If we don’t do all these, we cannot accelerate the SDGs.”

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