SUBSIDY REMOVAL: N5 Billion Palliative Is Renewed Nonsense - Atiku's Aide, Bwala Gives Reasons
Afnews Editor
Aug 19, 2023
SUBSIDY REMOVAL: N5 Billion Palliative Is Renewed Nonsense - Atiku's Aide, Bwala Gives Reasons
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An aide to Atiku Abubakar, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Daniel Bwala, has described the President Bola Tinubu administration's N5 billion palliative as renewed nonsense.
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Bwala made the remark while noting that the organized labour demystified the N5billion palliative to State governments.
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He noted that the calculation by the organized labour showed that each person would get N1,500 from the palliative.
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Tweeting, Bwala wrote: "The organised labour has demystified the so-called 5 billion naira FGN gave to States; first the FGN said it was a palliative and they are now saying it is a loan.
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"Organized labour further did their arithmetical calculations and arrived at a shameful conclusion that the so-called 5billion naira comes down to N1,500 per person.
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"How much is the cost of food items in the market? Renewed nonsense.ÔÇØ
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The Federal Government had announced plans to release N5 billion as palliative to cushion the effect of subsidy removal.
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