On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «
Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports;
imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a
clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!
It is
clear, in that regard, that the rules of criminal law are all public
policy rules in the sense that, as they are essentially
imperative rules, an individual's will can not preclude them.