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As the controversy over the impending removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government rages on, the spiritual father and chairman of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide (CSMC), Most Reverend Samuel Abidoye, yesterday warned the federal government against going ahead with such plan. Mr Abidoye argued that the removal of fuel subsidy would further worsen the plight of the already suffering Nigerian masses and could send the country down the precipice of further violence. The spiritual father stressed that with the current insecurity in the country, the removal of fuel subsidy was capable of inflaming the already charged atmosphere.

He gave this warning while speaking with newsmen at the CSMC International Headquarters, Kaduna on the state of the Nigerian nation.

The clergyman, who advised the federal government to rather concentrate its efforts on revamping the nation’s four comatose refineries and building new ones before toying with the idea of withdrawing fuel subsidy, also stressed that it would be inhuman on the part of the Jonathan administration to withdraw fuel subsidy when the successive governments in the country had failed to maintain the existing refineries or build new ones.

The CSMC spiritual father stated that the high level of poverty amongst the ordinary people in the country had reached an alarming stage which was no longer acceptable and should therefore not be aggravated by an anti-people policy such as the fuel subsidy removal.