Students, workers, and civil society organisations hit the streets of Ibadan, Oyo state on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, to reject the latest hike in the price of petrol and electricity tariff.
The protesters, who carried placards with different inscriptions to convey their disapproval while chanting anti-government songs, gathered at the Awolowo Junction area of Bodija in the state capital.
They condemned the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s policies describing the price hike as wicked and one that lacks sound judgment.
Mayowa Opakunle, the chairman, Joint Campus Committee of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, said students in the state totally reject the increment in the prices of petrol and electricity.
His words: “We are out on the streets to register our grievances and show our displeasure at the wicked policies and unjust treatment of Nigerians by the Federal Government.
“We say no to fuel price hike and electricity tariff increment at this period when many people have lost their jobs, many have not even been paid salaries for the past six months.
“Prices of food, other goods and services have continued to increase while salaries are either being slashed into half for so many while others don’t even get at all.
“But despite these hardships, the government has continued to increase prices of commodities. The consistent show of ineptitude and cluelessness on the part of the President and his cabinet is worrisome,” Opakunle said.
Andrew Emelieze, the immediate past chairman of Trade Union Congress, TUC, in Oyo State, also condemned the increment, saying “it would further impoverish the masses.”
Source: The Nation
