25/01/2022
War Against Injustice
WAI/KN/PR/22/004
25-1-2022.
To All Media Houses
Press Release
CONDEMNATION AND NOTIFICATION OF PARTICIPATION IN PEACEFUL DOMENSTRATION PROTEST AGAINST THE PLAN TO INCREASE THE PRICE OF PETROLEUM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ORGANISED BY NIGERIAN LABOUR CONGRESS KANO BRANCH.
The above subject matter refers to:
We, the executive members of this organization write to condemn the planning of the Federal Government of Nigeria of fuel price hike and join the protest against this plan organized by Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Kano branch on 27-1-2022.
It was a big regret that Nigeria had been identified as poverty capital of the world and lamented that the current administration has not showed any desire to change this situation.
The inflation rate in our country is one of the highest in the world so Nigeria has become a land of hardship, a land of hunger, poor diet, poor housing, low self-esteem, the unemployment level in Nigerian from the last figures is close to over 40 percent.
The proposed increase in the price of petrol, electricity and adding taxes show clearly that the Buhari administration and his Cabinets don’t care about the plight of the poor in Nigeria.
Contrary to all the promises they made, they have refused to explain why Nigerian oil cannot be refined in Nigeria as all Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are doing.
Thus, we are informing staff and members of this organization and also concerned citizens to join this soon storm the streets which is part of a campaign to put an end to hardship in Nigeria. We all know that Nigeria has for a long time been designated as the poverty capital of the world. There are more poor people who can not feed three square meal in a day.
This is our time to domenstrate our very much concerns about this fuel price hike.
We are calling the attention of security agencies particularly Police and DSS to give us maximum cooperation and security during this peaceful domenstration protest.
Comr. Umar Ibrahim Umar,
Executive Director.