JUST IN: Kano Residents Protest Over Economic Hardship

Some residents of Kano State on Tuesday, August 1, stormed the streets in protest of the ongoing hardship in the country triggered by fuel subsidy removal by the President Bola Tinubu led administration.

The protest led by a group known as Joint Action Front (JAF) is preparatory to the nationwide protest by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) sheduled for tommorow, August 2, 2023.

It was gathered that JAF as well as the Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) and Coalition for Revolution (CORE) had declared support for the NLC, TUC protest.

Truth Live News learnt that the civic organisations in a joint declaration, signed by Femi Falana (ASCAB), Baba Ayelabola (CORE), and Achike Chude (JAF) after a meeting had said they would join in the protest until victory was achieved, Sahara Reporters had disclosed.

In the declaration titled: “August 2nd, 2023 as the beginning of nationwide resistance against fuel price hike and anti-poor policies is sacrosanct,” the civic organisations that the minimum aim of the forthcoming struggle is the reversal of the “criminal hike of petrol from N617 to N195, reversal of other criminal policies like fee hike in public tertiary institutions, devaluation of the naira” which they noted had made life unbearable on Nigerian masses.

We support the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to call Nigerian workers and poor masses out on protest starting from Wednesday, August 2, 2023, against the wicked and neoliberal policies of the President Tinubu government, including, the severe hike in the price of petrol and devaluation of the naira.”

The organisations tasked the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) with unity in their engagement with the Federal Government and encourage them to jointly mobilise for mass action.