Sen. Abbo explains why Nigeria’s fuel scarcity, insecurity lasted so long

Ishaku Abbo, a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has proposed 19 options for the country to emerge from the quagmire of the country’s fuel scarcity and insecurity.

To Abbo, the principles he made are cognitive, solution-based approaches to tackle the nasty and lengthy problems that appear unsolvable.

On his official Facebook page, Abbo stated that the future of Nigeria, as well as the difficulty of eliminating insecurity, fuel scarcity and the matter of petroleum product imports into the country, will be solved in four years with the construction of at least eight refineries.

He stated that this will be the most important factor in ending the long-standing problem of fuel subsidies.

While urging on the political elite to get out of their party’s toga and fight for Nigeria, Adamawa Senator representing the North Senatorial District delivered an expose on how the country would reclaim its lost grandeur far from fuel scarcity, insecurity, hunger and many other issues.

The lawmaker explicitly urges all presidential and governorship candidates to comprehend the core causes of Nigeria’s current difficulties.

According to him, the currency rates as of 29 March 2012 are: £1 = 783, $1 = 560, and €1 = 670, while 42 years ago, on 01 March 1980, the exchange rate was $1 = 0.78k.

Nigerians were significantly more productive in 1980, according to the senator, than they are now.

In 1980, he listed 19 important reasons why the economy was booming:

1. Refined petroleum products were a net export for us. All of our refined petroleum products are now imported.
2. We traveled in automobiles, buses, and trucks built locally. Volkswagen automobiles in Lagos and Peugeot cars in Kaduna.
3. In Ibadan, Leyland built trucks and buses, and NAMCO in Enugu produced buses and trucks.
4. Our agricultural tractors were made by Steyr in Bauchi. We weren’t simply doing assembly; we were also making a lot of the parts:
5. The vehicle seats were made by Vono Products in Lagos.
6. Exide in Ibadan produced the batteries for the entire West African region, not just Nigeria.
7. The windshields were made in Ibadan by IsoGlass and TSG.
8. The brake pads and discs were made by Ferodo in Ibadan.
9. Tyres were manufactured in Lagos by Dunlop and in Port Harcourt by Michelin. And by tires, I mean those made from rubber plantations in Ogun, Bendel, and Rivers States.
10. We were listening to the radio and viewing Sanyo-assembled television sets in Ibadan.
11. We were employing Thermocool and Debo refrigerators, freezers, and air conditioners.
12. We were wearing garments made by UNTL Textile Mills in Kaduna and Chellarams in Lagos. They were made from Nigerian cotton, not imported cotton.
13. The pipes that carried our water were made by Kwalipipe in Kano and Duraplast in Lagos.
14. Our toilets were equipped with Kano and Abeokuta-made WCs.
15. We used LPG gas stored in gas cylinders made at the NGC factory in Ibadan to cook.
16. The Nigerian Wire and Cable Company in Ibadan, NOCACO in Kaduna, and Kablemetal in Lagos and Port Harcourt supplied our electricity.
17. The shoes we were wearing were made by Bata and Lennards stores. The shoes were made in Kaduna from locally tanned leather rather than imported leather.
18. We mostly flew our airline, Nigeria Airways, to most destinations throughout the world. Nigeria Airways was Africa’s largest airline at the time.
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19. The majority of the foods we consumed were grown or manufactured in Nigeria.

Read the full Facebook post and here what the youngest senator said;