…As Transporters set to down tools
There is growing tension in the South East region following the hike in the price of petrol across the country and to this end, the youths in the area and transporters are set to commence mass protests in the area.
In an issued statement signed by its President, Comrade Goodluck Ibem and Publicly Secretary, Comrade Okey Nwaoru, the body said the development has shown the plot by the Federal Government to send the Nigerian masses into extinction.
According to the leaders of South-East Transporters in the zone, who spoke to newsmen shortly after an emergency meeting, said there is a plot to kill Nigerians adding that the next information that would get to members is to park their vehicles and not ply the roads.
One of their leaders, Comrade Everest Kanu, said, “We pity the people that patronise us and most of them are Civil Servants and their salaries did not reflect this increase in price even the Businessmen and women now pay more to transport their goods and that also affects the cost of goods such as food items”
“Soon, we shall go home and park our buses and tricycles and stay at home until we find a solution to this act of wickedness by the Federal Government”.
Similarly, the apex socio-political youth group in the South-East geo-political zone, the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, (COSEYL), expressed alarm over the new fuel price hike from N520 to N617 by the Federal Government, headed by President Bola Tinubu, describing it as “a gross insensitivity and wickedness of the highest order”.
“The recent fuel price hike has proved beyond every reasonable doubt that the previous fuel price increment from N198 to N520 was not as a result of subsidy removal, but it is a well-calculated attempt to impoverish Nigerians so that they will not have the energy and strength to challenge the Federal Government in whatever way.
“When Nigerians are still battling with hardship to settle with the previous price of N520, the same President Tinubu within 2 months in office increased the same price of fuel to N617”.
“We, therefore, call on the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, (TUC), Nigerian Youths, all traders and businessmen/women, all Trade Unions, and all Nigerians students in the entire nation to come out en masse for a protest march against this evil and wickedness brought upon Nigerians by President Bola Tinubu”, he said.
