….Blames Governors for contributing to the hardship
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been advised to allow the importation of food items for the period of six(6) months by opening the land borders across the country in order to reduce the current suffering of the Nigeria masses.
The advised was given to the President Bola Tinubu by a human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman as a way to ameliorate the current suffering of the Nigeria masses as a result of the subsidy removal since May 29th,2023 and ongoing economic policies of the present administration.
Blaming the State Governors for not helping the Tinubu led Federal Government on how to ease the current hardship situation facing the Nigerian people but just benefitting from the increase in federal allocation without any justification in their various States
Reacting to the two-day hardship protest embarked upon by the organized Labour of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) across the land, Comrade Sulaiman who urged President Tinubu and the State Governors to fine-tune a strategy on how to cushion the effects of the current hardship by putting a concrete measure in place before the situation goes out of hand.
Adding that, the government should control the price of the goods and services, particularly, the food items, by stopping the ongoing geometrical inflation in the land.
According to the Statement issued by the CHRSJ’S Media office and which copies were made available to newsmen on Tuesday, Sulaiman who is the Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), advised the State Governors to use the increase in their monthly allocations to buy a food items and subsidized it for the teeming masses across the Local Government areas of the country.
The human rights activist,saluted the courage of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) under the headship of Comrade Joe Ajaero and human rights community led by Barrister Femi Falana,SAN to organize the two-day protest to let the government aware of the current hardship facing by the Nigeria masses.
He also applauded the men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), particularly,the Lagos State Police Commissioner,Mr. Adegoke Fayoade for the peaceful conduct of security personnel in Lagos and other States of the Federation, adding that the Government and the security agents should know that it was inalienable right of the citizens to a peaceful protest and constructive criticism for the betterment of the society.
Sulaiman,then, charged the masses of the country to know that it was also their right to reject any anti- masses policy of the government, urging the people to call out their Governors to be accountable for the increase in their monthly allocation from the Federation Account by President Bola Tinubu.
