Hardship: Allow Importation of Food Items for Six  Months, Activist Advises Tinubu

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been advised to allow the importation of food items for the period of six months by opening the land borders across the country in order to reduce the current suffering of the Nigeria masses.

The advised was given to the President Tinubu by a human rights activist, Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, as a way to ameliorate the current suffering of the Nigeria masses as a result of the subsidy removal since May 29, 2023, and ongoing economic policies of the present administrat

He blamed the state governors for not helping the Tinubu-led federal government on how to ease the current hardship situation facing the Nigerian people but just benefitting from the increase in federal allocation without any justification in their various states.

Reacting to the two-day hardship protest embarked upon by the organised Labour across the country,  Sulaiman, who urged President Tinubu and the state governors to fine-tune a strategy on how to cushion the effects of the current hardship by putting concrete measures in place before the situation goes out of hand, added that the government should control the price of the goods and services, particularly the food items, by stopping the ongoing geometrical inflation in the land.

According to the statement issued by the CHRSJ media office and which copies were made available to THISDAY at the weekend, Sulaiman, who is the chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), advised the state governors to use the increase in their monthly allocations to buy food items and subsidised it for the masses in their state.

The human rights activist, saluted the courage of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) under the headship of Joe Ajaero and human rights community led by Femi Falana (SAN).