Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo
Residents of Osogbo, the Osun State capital, yesterday staged a protest in opposition to the financial hardship ravaging the nation.
The protest tagged: ‘Osogbo Sufficient Is Sufficient, President Bola Tinubu let the poor breathe’, was organised by the Osun Civil Societies Coalition (OCSC) over excessive price of dwelling and financial hardship within the nation.
Nonetheless, safety personnel have been current on the scenes of the protest to keep up peace and order, and to avert any public disturbance or violence.
The protesters moved from Nelson Mandela Freedom Park venue to Oke-Fia roundabouts and ended on the widespread Olaiya-Overhead bridge in Osogbo.
Fielding questions from journalists on the sideline of the protest, the Chairman, OCSC, Waheed Lawal, condemned the Commerce Union Congress (TUC) choice to again out of the proposed two-day nationwide protest over the financial hardship going through tens of millions of Nigerians.
Lawal mentioned the final minute plan by the TUC to again out of the proposed protest, which each labour unions agreed upon, was worrisome.
He mentioned the union must have aligned itself with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) for the most effective curiosity of about 200 million Nigerians going through financial hardship and excessive price of dwelling.
In response to him, “I’ll have beloved the TUC to see purpose why they ought to not again out at this level as a result of the two-day proposed protest is for the most effective curiosity of all Nigerians.
“Each labour unions ought to attempt to kind issues out on or earlier than the graduation of the protest. But when TUC fails to affix, we assist NLC to hold on with the protest.”
Lawal mentioned President Bola Tinubu should look past giving tens of millions of naira as palliatives to governors to addressing their hungry topics; quite he ought to discover a lasting resolution to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians.
Additionally talking, Wale Adebisi , Director, Ola-Oni Centre, Osogbo, mentioned the protest was to sign these in authorities that the February 27 and 28 can be the mom of all protest throughout the nation.
Adebisi, suggested President Tinubu to meet his guarantees to Nigerians after the elimination of gasoline subsidy that has worsened the financial predicament of issues within the nation.
Earlier, Ayo Ologun, a human proper activist and public affairs analyst, condemned the insurance policies, saying there ought to have been programmes already in place to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians by President Tinubu.
Ologun mentioned no CNG buses, no elevated nationwide minimal wage, excessive worth of petrol, excessive price of dwelling amongst others which have left many Nigerians struggling.
He suggested the president to shortly fulfill all the guarantees made with the organised labour with the intention to make life significant to all Nigerians.
