Yoruba groups vow to resist fuel price hike; to storm street

The Coalition of Oodua Self Determination Groups, COSEG, have come against the recent hike in the pump price of petroleum.

The group threatened to mobilize against its implementation.

This was contained in COSEG press statement signed by Ifedayo Ogunlana and Rasaq Olokooba, Chairman and Secretary, respectively.

The group decried the new price policy of the Federal Government as announced by the Minister of State of Petroleum.

It says the price is “callous and a way not to reward Nigerians who are currently undergoing stress as a result of the lingering economic recession in the country.”

The group said it rejects the “dubious policy and will therefore mobilise the people to come out en-masse to show their grievances against the policy.

COSEG said “when Buhari was elected, the

Nigerian people thought his government

would proffer solutions to their problems.

But with this new policy of indirectly hiking

fuel pump price and indirectly fixing the

price at N145, we know we have goofed.

COSEG said “when Buhari was elected, the Nigerian people thought his government would proffer solutions to their problems. 

“But with this new policy of indirectly hiking fuel pump price and indirectly fixing the price at N145, we know we have goofed.

“We therefore reject this new policy and will mobilise and join millions of Nigerians on the street to reject it. We are going to the street to demand the reversal of the evil policy, the release reads

He group further said “Nigerians cannot be taken for a ride for so long a time. 

“The Federal Government is taking the respect the people have for Buhari to the pit ‎. 

“The average Nigerians today are finding it hard to eat and this government is compounding their problems day in day out”.

Ogunlana called on Government to act responsibly and proactively, saying “government should behave as a government who must carry out its responsibility of blocking the loopholes in the petroleum management. 

“We Nigerians cannot be suffering for their ineptitudes.”

The group further said it support the ongoing ‎anti-corruption drive of the government, saying:

“We restate our support for the ongoing anti-corruption stand of the government.

“But the Government must move its anti-corruption stand to the petroleum sector too by ensuring that nobody shortchanged through its subsidy policy.

“The outright removal of subsidy will never be supported,” it said.

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