Some citizens of Nigeria have called on Federal Government to reverse the new Electricity tariff and petrol pump price for the betterment of the masses.
Nigerians described the action has inhuman and unacceptable for any sector of the country to introduce outrageous prices as at when the country is just coming out of coronavirus pandemic.
They stated this during a vox pop on the new electricity tariff and petrol pump price with TheSource on Saturday in Osogbo, Osun State capital.
Speaking with journalists the Managing Director of Pace Service Affairs, Mr. Ogundiran Afolabi said the common citizens will suffer the increment of Petrol pump price and electricity tariff, if federal government did not reverse the new policy.
Afolabi further said that the masses are just coming out of Covid-19 pandemic that has affected their business.
According to him, “Things has not been easy for people since the out break of the Coronavirus private school teachers don’t earn salary and many of the business men and women have spent a lot of money on food consumption to survive.
“We cannot say federal government is not try to improve the economy of the nation because of the effect of COVID-19 but while doing that people must be considered.
“The masses will surfer if government didn’t reserve the increment of fuel and electricity tariff one or the other goods will definitely increase.”
“Nigeria’s refineries must be rejuvenated as promised 2015 and 2019 if truly President Muhammadu Buhari wants a better life for the citizens with peoples oriented polices” he added
An artisan, Madam Isola Deborah, who owns a hairdressing saloon in her own reaction said ” how would a sincere leader who wants an enviable living standard for his subject unleash hardship upon them at this period of COVID-19 when everyone is just struggling to return to business.
“I can never support President Buhari in this new development because it is a bad policy at the wrong time” she said.
However, Deborah urged President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo to use their office in rescuing Nigerians from what she described as looming hardship.
An inter-state bus driver, Mr. Amusan Akinlade in his own reaction said the new hike was a callus decisions by those who designed it to suffer Nigerians.
Mr. Akinlade questioned “how would a poor driver like me meet up with my expected responsibility as bread winner of the family with five children and two wives at the face of this sudden inflations?
“President Muhammadu Buhari must be told that he is governing over 200 million human beings not animals” he said.
“He was given the power by overwhelming Nigerians as president to make life meaningful not miserable” Mr Akinlade urged President Buhari to listen to the plight of the masses.
