The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has charged the Federal Government, FG to allow importation of food withinin two weeks, says it’s necessary to alleviate the ongoing hunger crisis in Nigeria.
Speaking during a press conference on the economic hardship ravaging the country on Monday in Abuja,the president of TUC, Festus Osifo said Nigerians have never witnessed this level of hardship before, even during military regimes, adding that the problems are not unconnected to the government’s poor patronage of locally made products and services and lack of capable hands at the helm of affairs.
Osifo said, “Nigerians must live to see tomorrow before we can understand how beautiful a government policy is. The national pride of striving to achieve food sufficiency locally should be temporarily relaxed. Governments at all levels should immediately purchase sufficient quantities of food items from around the world and share them with vulnerable Nigerians.
“Importing food abroad at this point will assist to reduce the hyper-inflation of food in the country. Federal Government should allow importation of food items for Nigerians consumption within the next two weeks.”
Recall that, the TUC had earlier announced it’s non-participation in the planned two-day nationwide protest declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress over the high cost of living, inflation, insecurity, and hardship in the country.
In a letter dated February 19, 2024, written by its Secretary General, Dr Nuhu Toro, TUC said the nationwide protest was a unilateral decision made by the NLC.
