The manufacturing industry is better served where the country does not have to tax manufacturers to the hilt to pay for subsidy or look to loans from external parties that point fingers at the sector for revenue to recover their loans. It is extremely difficult to convince a finance minister not to increase taxes when he / she needs the revenue to plug an oversized revenue hole.

Much has been said about fuel subsidy, especially the impact on Government’s very lean treasury and about the consequential impact of its removal on most Nigerians