Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said in London that the administration of president Muhammadu Buhari is leaving the country much more secure than he met it.
He stated this during an exclusive interview to Reuters in London.
He also spoke about the fuel subsidy and the reason the Federal Governent cannot, at the moment, remove the subsidy on the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol.
According to Mohammed, many other nations are introducing measures to help citizens cope with high oil energy prices and Nigeria could not be an exception.
“When you consider the chaos, the social disharmony and … instability such an action (abolishing subsidies) would facilitate, is it worth it? I don’t think so,” he said.
While he argued that a new industry law that allocates money to oil-producing communities would stop attacks, Mohammed blamed the European Union’s climate change policies for stifling investment in the sector.
He said, “We believe that climate change is real and important for emission control, but there is a bit of a double standard in the EU policy regarding climate change,” he said.
Meanwhile, amid attacks on oil infrastructure, insecurity in several parts of the country, Mohammed said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government is “leaving the country much more secure than we met it,”
He further said that President Buhari’s administration has made progress against Boko Haram since 2015.
