Abuja, Feb. 26, 2024 – The Trade Union Congress (TUC) says it will not participate in the planned protest of NLC on Feb. 27 and Feb. 28.
It has, however, advised the Federal Government to begin massive importation of food items to meet the needs of Nigerians.
Festus Osifo, the President of the TUC, said this at a press conference on Monday.
He said the TUC would rather continue to engage the Federal Government and proffer solutions to some of the challenges facing the country.
Osifo said TUC had outlined a 15-point agenda that the government should consider in other to improve the economic situation of the country.
He urged the Federal Government to begin massive importation of food to mitigate the soaring prices of food across the country.
Osifo said the current shortage of foods might not be unconnected with the government’s poor patronage of locally made products and services, and lack of capable hands at the helm of affairs.
“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 different parts of 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. FG should allow importation of food items for Nigerian’s consumption within the next two weeks,” he said. (GBN)
