Marafa said, “We were told that there is subsidy part of what we are going to ask is: If there is subsidy, who approved the subsidy? “So, if you are going to provide for subsidy, you have to come to the National Assembly. “Now, if they say there is subsidy, when the price (of petrol) rose to N145, the common belief by all Nigerians was that subsidy was gone and gone for the good. “If it is N171, who approved the subsidy or payment of the remaining balance? “Between 2006 and the figures we have for 2016, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation alone got N5.1tn for subsidy while marketers collected over N4tn.

Source: Punch December 30, 2017 01:41 UTC