My attention has been drawn to some statements from some miscreants linking my name to subsidy collection from the Federal Government. Ordinarily, we should ignore such uneducated and uncivilised statements, which is at best the imagination of some lawless gangsters.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is important to put it on record, that my oil company, the Global Fleet Oil and Gas, which has been operating in the past nine years, with more than 210 petrol stations across the country, has never collected any money called subsidy from the Federal Government or it's agents. in addition, I have never collected any allocation from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company or imported such. We only buy and sell. I challenge anyone who has contrary information to publish it or remain silent in shame.This statement is to correct the deliberate falsehood by some misguided people. We have never applied to any government agency for petroleum subsidy. Our companies and their operations in Nigeria do not fall in the category of companies that require government subsidy to operate, since we do not enjoy a similar thing from the government of Ghana, Sao Tome, United Arab Emirate, United kingdom and the United States of America where we carry out similar operations.
There is no need therefore to put a burden on the Nigerian government.
My Interraction with President Goodluck Jonathan shows his irrevocable commitment to the development of infrastructure in Nigeria, particularly in the construction of basic amenities like roads and hospitals, which I think is the mandate that we Nigerians gave to him, on which point I am also committed.
And it is only logical for us to give him the support required to deliver on that mandate. I do not personally think that joy and celebration without sacrifice and the burden of pain is sustainable.
Only maturity will strike a balance to do things in our ways and embrace the third alternative.
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