Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s finance minister, spoke to Al Jazeera from the capital Abuja about the fuel subsidy removal that has triggered the Occupy Nigeria demonstration among Nigerians home and abroad.
In the interview, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala defends the government’s removal of the fuel subsidy, the unpopular policy that has caused demonstrations across Nigeria and prompted the labour groups to embark on an indefinite mass strike starting Monday, 9 January 2012.
