Olee otu ọnụahịa mmanụ ọkụ si emetụta onye na-enweta ụgwọ ọrụ kacha nta?
Ọ bụrụ na ị na-anata ụgwọ ọnụ ala kacha nta nke ₦70,000, ịzụrụ naanị lita mmanụ ụgbọala 40 na ₦1,400 kwa lita na-efu gị ₦56,000. Nke ahụ bụ 80 pasent nke ego gị nke ọnwa gaa tupu ị azụta nri, kwụọ ụgwọ ụlọ, kwụọ ụgwọ eletrik, kwụọ ụgwọ akwụkwọ ma ọ bụ kwụọ ụgwọ ahụike. Egosiwo m na ụmụ amaala ebe dị ka Saudi Arabia, Kuwait na UAE na-anatakarị ego karịrị nke a nke ukwuu ma na-akwụ obere ego kwa lita. Nke ahụ bụ eziokwu mmadụ dị n'azụ ọnụọgụgụ ndị a.
A sụgharịrị azịza ndị dị na peeji a site na Bekee site na igwe, ọ bụkwa na onye nsụgharị elelebeghị ha.
Ebe nke a si abịa
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A Nigerian earning the ₦70,000 statutory minimum wage requires ₦56,000 merely to buy 40 litres of petrol at ₦1,400 per litre. That is 80 per cent of an entire month’s minimum wage. Before that worker buys food, pays rent, electricity, school fees or medical bills, four-fifths of his monthly wage can disappear into just 40 litres of petrol.
Meanwhile, citizens of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE generally earn vastly more while paying less per litre. That is the human face missing from your economic argument.
And the pain does not end at the petrol station. Take the woman selling tomatoes at Mile 12. The farmer pays for energy to cultivate. A vehicle moves the tomatoes from the farm. Another truck carries them hundreds of kilometres to Lagos. The wholesaler pays transport. The retailer pays transport again. By the time those tomatoes reach the mother preparing dinner, expensive fuel has entered the final price several times over.