Subsidy Crisis: Jonathan Is Driving Nigeria Towards Total Collapse, Says OCCUPY NIGERIA

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Following the ongoing crisis in the country surrounding the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government, a Civil Society Group under the auspices of OCCUPY NIGERIA has raised alarm that President Goodluck Jonathan is driving Nigeria towards total collapse over his insistence on the controversial implementation of anti people’s policy.

OCCUPY NIGERIA also backs the organized labour on the ongoing strike action embarked upon to force the Jonathan-led federal government reverse its decision on fuel subsidy removal.

In a statement issued and signed by the Southwest Zonal Coordinator and Osun State Chairman of the group, Comrade Amitolu Shittu and Mallam Musliudeen Oladimeji respectively which was made available to newsmen via email yesterday, urged President Jonathan to listen to the voice of the people and reverse the price of fuel to N65, saying that “Voice of people is the voice of God”.

The group however condemned the killing of peaceful protesters in some states of the federation, calling on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Hafiz Ringim and Police Service Commission (PSC) to investigate the alleged killing of peaceful protesters and bring the perpetrator officers to book in no distance time.

They added that if the appropriate authorities failed to look at the ugly incident of killing innocent protesters by men of Nigeria police, it means the anarchy is looming in the country which it may beyond the control of security agents as being experienced some countries of the world in recent past.

Speaking further, the OCCUPY NIGERIA reiterated its call on President Jonathan to change its stand on the removal of fuel subsidy crisis because the current situation is an open gate to anarchy which it may also consume Jonathan’s government.

OCCUPY NIGERIA stated that President Jonathan and his cabinet members should brace up for more social and civil unrest as they insisted on the illegal removal of fuel subsidy, describing it as wicked ,most insensitive, heartless, evil and ungodly decision ever taken since independent of this country in 1960.

They said, “This decision has shown that the ruling class in the country had no respect and regard for opinions of the Nigerian masses. Instead of the federal government to fine tune a strategy to finding the lasting solution to the challenges of insecurity of lives and property that threatens the peaceful co-existence of the country. Let me further tell President Jonathan that with the current situation, the revolution may from his administration.

“We want to ask President Jonathan to disclose the total amount of our crude oil lifting on daily basis as well as the litres of crude oil supply the constituted cartels of the government that are importing fuel to the country because over the years, the price and total amount of selling the crude oil was not available in the appropriation budget of Nigeria or are they selling or supplying   the crude of oil to alleged cartels free of charge and we want to say unequivocally that Jonathan’s administration is corruption embedded government ”.

“We want to call on people of the country particularly the protesters to be civilized in the conduct of our rallies so as to give us the opportunity to achieve our aim at the end of the day. We want to use this medium to salute the courage of Nigerians for standing up for what is right at this trial period of our national life. You should know that subsidy removal is already a disaster that adding to the burden of the poor by the President Jonathan and his co-travelers. We want to encourage Nigerians to endure the current situation which we believe it would soon be over”, OCCUPY NIGERIA stated.

They submitted that any nation drives its economy on foreign economy policy would collapse.

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REALITY

All the Nigerian former head of state, should talk to mr president Jonathan in other to call for peace....

Give GEJ a chance and the Cabal will fail. don't be used by them

The same cabal using NLC and Nigerians are the enemies. plus politicians like Bakare and IBB trying to score cheap political points. stop the strike let's give oga presido a chance before crucifying him.

you are simply stupid

you are simply stupid

@ Lans

Of course, while will the comment not stinks to you, when all the connecting fibres in your brain has been destroyed by sapele water.
Obviously, you have no inkling of what is going on, still wallowing in your stupid tribal drool. Lazy idiots

Dear fool, who will occupy

Dear fool, who will occupy your infected ass? You are either saying this rubbish because Ɣ☺u don't live in this country or because you are one of Iђƺ few that can still afford the high price of commodities in Iђƺ country. By the time you die and your children don't have anything to live on, your stupid ghost will be regretting your stupidity when Ɣ☺u were alive. Identify yourself if you are these rubbish to our faces. Condemned fool, pple ddey talk about ass, dis idiot sef dey talk about ass. Stupid ass idiot

NIGERIA TRANSFORMATION

It is GEJ not that is DRIVING our beloved Nigeria to eventual collapse but our COLLECTIVE INTRANSIGENCE that we are RIGHT in our different stands with each not wanting to give a quarter.
The Nigeria Project is not working,bur determined to keep it going without REFORMING IT. GEJ as a child of necessity as been DERIDED as A WEAKLING, now that he decided to be PRESIDENTIAL, OTHER GOVERNING ELITES are determined to BRING THE HOUSE DOWN( THIS HOUSE IS FALLEN)
For now the govt and occupiers are missing the POINT,

THE CHALLENGE IS TO MAKING A REALITY OF THE NIGERIA MYTH NOT THE CONTINUING THE EXTORTION BY OUR PREDATING ELITES N THE POLITICAL CLASS, BUREAUCRACY,BUSINESS AND THEIR FOREIGN COLLABORATORS
A NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NATIONALITIES IS NIGH, LEST LIKE A CUBE WE DISSOLVE IN THE AVALANCHES GRIEVANCES CONFRONTING US

Occupy my ass

Occupy Nigeria, you guys are actually very stupid enough to think you can remove Jonathan; why dont u use your brains sometimes, u dont know at this stage that no Jonathan, No Nigeria, u really think u can bully him around with your social media saga ba, well we are just watching... u dare touch Jonathan then you will understand what God meant when He said touch not my anointed... try it.. just try it... we are waiting for you people.. by the way stop saying anti people policy how many are you people if i count all the protesters on you over hyped rallies,i'm not sure u are up to a million put together, by the time i join lagos london USA, abuja,etc. were out of 167 million.. 0.6% of nigerians cant be majority my friend stop over estimating your self.. u can occupy my ass instead..

Occupy Nigeria

Your comment stinks

Bakare Baba ke!

Bakare is so bothered about wearing the shoes of Namadi Sambo by becoming the number 2 citizen of Nigeria.He is so desperate that he is ready to lay down his life in the on going protest organised by his SNG in Lagos.He even made several curses on the president calling him different names.PASTOR,thats not how to do it.You don't come so open.There are others who are equally interested in this portfolio like you but have actually pipped low.One thing is certain,if GEJ makes one mistake,if u or Buhari had been in his shoes,you'll make two or more.

OccupyNigeria

Reasons why we doubt their intentions are many but i will only highlight one for you to comprehend, none of the idiots, the 36 governors inclusive ( the pretentious ACN fools), are not ready to cut their over bloated salaries and allowance viz-a-viz the security vote. The Governors haven't told us what they intend to do with subsidy largesse when it is allocated.
Just to let you know we are not deceived by their silence, we know they are in on it. So open your eyes Deri and feel our pain and grievance. Stop deluding yourself about GEJ and Niger Delta, at least majority of Nigerians agitating today voted for him. Odensi

fuel subsidy removal

why is Mr. president treating the Nation like this. The nation dat is blessed with CRUDE OIL, we still suffer from what we hv. Nations dat are not having the crude oil they still enjoy morethan we ar. Mr. Ebele Jonathan kindly hear the voice of the masses

@ Deri

Why are you so myopic? What is wrong with your medulla oblongata? Because Jonny is from Niger Delta makes him infallible, you don't seems to get it at all. The problem is not GEJ, it is the deceit of the government and the inconsistencies of their policies.
People are tired of being taken for a ride, we've heard this kind of statement before, its turned to a sing song competition. Any idiot that comes into power always sing the same tune and the end result, you know for yourself. He may mean well, which a lot of the populace doubt but this time around we are not going to fall down and die for any politician to achieve his goal. Period

Deri Always out of context!

Deri, you're now crying for 'badluck'? You never start to dey cry yet!

Rise Beyond Ethnic Considerations

You need to rise above ethnic considerations and look at things objectively. The people in govt. will keep repeating themselves like a broken record, but the people will not budge. Why? because what they are saying is not responding to the questions people are asking? Is this course the only way open to the government? Obviously not. Several people have offered alternative solutions to removing the subsidy, but the govt. chose to be deaf and blind to all suggestions. We will see where this ends.

I just laugh when people keep saying we should wait for palliatives to take effect. The results of the palliatives are needed NOW, not in 2 -3 years time. The family about to the thrown out into the streets as they can no longer afford the doubled and tripled house rent cannot wait for the palliatives' indirect effects to take place. And so on. Again, there are alternative ways of achieving the objective of this policy; the govt. should revisit them.

TREACHEROUS GOVERNORS

It has always been said time and time again that the Yorubas cannot be trusted. All the governors were present at the NEC meeting where they ALL agreed to the removal of the fuel subsidy. They did not oppose it.They all signed up to it.But when the governors of some states in western Nigeria went home, they provided huge sums of money to fund the protests in their states - providing money for t-shirts,food etc for protesters in order to sabotage their colleagues & the President.Haba, Yoruba, how treacherous!Awolowo as Commissioner & Deputy Chairman of Nigerian NEC conspired & advised Gowon to immediately create 12 states in order to polarize & make it difficult for the now South South to remain committed to the Biafra effort with their oil & natural gas.The same Awo advised on how to make it difficult for Biafra to get food & weapons.And you say Igbo people should trust the Yorubas.Try squeezing water out of stone.

TREACHEROUS GOVERNORS

It has always been said time and time again that the Yorubas cannot be trusted. All the governors were present at the NEC meeting where they ALL agreed to the removal of the fuel subsidy. They did not oppose it.They all signed up to it.But when the governors of some states in western Nigeria went home, they provided huge sums of money to fund the protests in their states - providing money for t-shirts,food etc for protesters in order to sabotage their colleagues & the President.Haba, Yoruba, how treacherous!Awolowo as Commissioner & Deputy Chairman of Nigerian NEC conspired & advised Gowon to immediately create 12 states in order to polarize & make it difficult for the now South South to remain committed to the Biafra effort with their oil & natural gas.The same Awo advised on how to make it difficult for Biafra to get food & weapons.And you say Igbo people should trust the Yorubas.Try squeezing water out of stone.

@Deri The stupid lunatic

A rare breed of stupidity not found anywhere in the world.
Stupid Mad person

Are you tired of occupying?

Are you tired of occupying? Why are you issuing statements begging Jonathan? Pls continue to occupy while I occupy my bed

jonathan is an utter failure.

jonathan has been presenting the symptom of a leader that will fail woefully since he became a substantive president early in 2011.his handling of the oil and the energy sector,ditto the economy, is to say the least disappointing.i urge the national assembly to immediately commence impeachment proceeding against him b/c jonathan is a disaster waiting to happen.we've had govt. in this country,this one is most useless,most irresponsible.

Left for D south West and the Fulanis to decide our fate not Gej

Thought you were working towards fulfilling the order by Bakare, urging you all to ensure that GEJ is given the Gaddafi treatment. Killed! What else do u want GEJ to do? then say his last prayers. When the most powerful humans on mother earth from the south west, decides to arrange the murder of the presido of 9ja, with a view to protecting an oil thieving cabal, what would the masses do than to obey your command. Rather than have you negotiate the real price of petrol and focus attention on the ongoing murder of 9jas, most especially Igbos by boko haram--with hausas leaving the south in droves, what you do is to issue more threats- to us in the south south zone. So what do u expect us to do, than for each zone to declare her plans to secede from 9ja. Dont blame GEJ. Blame buhari and tinubu the gods we have been directed to worship daily. For the ongoing protest to end the egyptian way. May be next year.Powerless shoeless GEJ- versus a very powerful cabal.

Wey Gdaffi today?

Na so e start."I will not step down or leave the country".When serious issues are at hand,Jonathan prefer to wage war on Fuel Subsidy.What a calamity.When the Nation is at the verge of disintergration,he prefers to stick to his guns.Well if he is bigger than Nigeria,or owns it with his clique of rogues we shall know.Since he refuse to back down,the strike/protest must continue.Nigerian spring is what we are seeing.The ruling CABAL must be brought down now or never.Jonathan must GO!