Kill Corruption, Not Nigerians: Civil Society To Tinubu
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Benin Civil Society Groups flooded major streets in Benin City, Edo State on Monday, to protest the recent increase in price of petrol and nationwide hardship.
The groups, under the aegis of the Edo Civil Society Organisations, lamented the high cost of governance exhibited by politicians at the expense of poor Nigerians.
The protesters took to the streets in Benin, carrying several placards bearing different captions like “FG Fix Our Refineries”, “Kill Corruption, not Nigerians”, “Poor Nigerians Lives Matter”, “We Say No To Constant Increment In PMS”, and “How Did NNPCL Become Fuel Price Regulator”, among others.
Recall that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, last Tuesday,
increased the prices of petrol to N617 per litre in Abuja, while other places like Lagos are selling at N550 and above.
In his inaugural speech, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had declared an end to subsidy of fuel, and this jerked the litre of petrol from N197 to above N500 across the country.
Tinubu, in his bid to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians, proposed to give N8,000 to 12 million households for six months, a measure that was suspended over a barrage of criticisms.
Addressing journalists, the interim chairman of EDOCSO, Austine Enabulele,said the federal government ought to have provided palliatives that
would cushion the pangs of fuel subsidy removal before implementing it.
On his part, the President, Talakawa’s Parliament (TP), Kola Edokpayi, said the poverty rate had increased as a result of the subsidy removal.
