After watching clips of Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah on Channels TV on Friday, Feb 26,2016, I have come to the conclusion that, perhaps, there is no harm in granting his request to hire him officially to contribute his quota towards checking the activities of dollar speculators and currency racketeers to bring down the fake rising rate of the dollar. Afterall, the businessman said his services will not cost the nation one kobo.
At this juncture, there is the need to take a look at some of his interventions in the past. During one of the many subsidy scams under the past administration of Dr. Jonathan, when it was discovered that some friends of the government were selling Kerosene above official price of #50, while at the same time collecting subsidy from the government on the same commodity, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah put some of the marketers to shame by taking his tankers to communities to sell kerosene to people at #50.
At the twilight of Dr. Jonathan administration, and there was serious crisis as marketers refused to sell fuel, it was a time Nigerians were subjected serious hardship. Again, the man came out to say he was going to resume the supply of fuel from his depots to alleviate the sufferings of the masses. And that put an end to the wickedness of the marketers, as they were forced to resume supply.
In times of great distress, the business mogul has always shown some patriotism. Maybe, government should look the way of this man. This is in line with Professor Wole Soyinka's call for wide consultations in tackling the country's economic woes. Like the Nobel Laureate said, the woes were not a creation of this government.
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