TUC Warns Tinubu: Nigerians Are Dying Owing to Food Crisis!

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  • Seeks Import of Food Items

By Isaac Akerele

The Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Monday, appealed to President Bola Tinubu to forget about national pride and resort to importing food items on account of the unprecedented suffering of Nigerians

The President of the TUC, Mr. Festus Osifo, who said this during a press conference in Abuja, called on the government at all levels to purchase food items in enough quantities to distribute to indigent Nigerians, stating that this will help reduce the resulting hardship caused by hyper-inflation of food in the country

While he stressed that Nigerians must first live to see tomorrow before they can understand how beautiful a government policy is, Festus counsels that the national pride of the present government in striving to achieve food sufficiency locally, be temporarily relaxed.

This call by the TUC comes amidst President Bola Tinubu’s unflinching resolve on importing of food items. The Presidency had earlier maintained its stance to encourage domestic production of food by halting the importation of food, even as more protests break out in the country on account of the widespread economic hardship

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