We're pained as subsidy removal multiplied our cost of living in Anambra capital city, NLC

 

By Okechukwu Onuegbu

The Anambra State Chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Wednesday, lamented that the subsidy removal has increased the cost of living in Awka, the State capital city beyond what is tenable in other parts of the country.

The State Chairman of NLC, Comrade Humphre Emeka Nwafor, who disclosed this at the solidarity protest aimed at notifying President Bola Tinubu the hardship the citizens of Nigerians are passing through under his administration, added that subsidy removal has inflicted so much hardship on Nigerians.

According to him, Nigerians are also not in need of ₦8,000 palliatives being proposed by the federal government to cushion the effect, as it was not enough to address the challenges.

"We demanded that the FG should pay the 8-months salary of University workers. The Federal government should not allow private companies to determine the price increase of petroleum products for Nigerians, when we have our regulatory agency. We are not accepting the N8,000 palliative.

"As I speak, the cost of living here in Anambra State is very high. The current house rent in Awka is higher than other state capitals of the Federation while workers monthly salaries remain the same. We called on President Tinubu to revise all the anti-policies he has put in place for the sake of the poor masses," he maintained.

Contributing, the State  ASUU-UNIZIK Chairman, Comrade Kingsley Ubaorji, his counterparts from Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Comrade Adigwe Chikwelu and the State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, urged the Government to reconsider all the antipeople policies for the sake of poor Nigerians who could not afford two square meal per day.