Some market women in Ogun State have threatened to beat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as economic hardship bites harder.
The aggrieved women, expressing their frustration with the prevailing economic hardships, voiced their concerns in a sighted by our correspondent on Wednesday.
They noted that Tinubu disappointed Nigerians, particularly the Yoruba.
An elderly woman said “He has disappointed us in Yoruba land, he is not behaving like a Yoruba man.”
Another one asserted that “Everything is so costly to the extent that we cannot afford to buy one bowl of garri. We are tired of everything, when I started business, a carton of fish was 200 naira but now it is 20,000 naira.
“We don’t have food to eat, old people are dying. Business is not moving, and there’s nothing. We are all hungry. This problem is too much. If you can’t solve our problem, don’t add to it.”
Another trader appealed to the president to have mercy on Nigerians, saying, “We’re tired of Nigeria; everything is costly, everything is getting costly every day.”
“What he promised us is not what’s happening now. This is too much.”“At this point we are tired, things are too costly. A carton of Titus is N100,000; it used to cost N17,000. Kote is going to N60,000. Shawa, which we used to sell for N70, now goes for N700.”
When asked what they would tell the president if they had the opportunity to see him, one of the traders said “We will beat the President if we have opportunity of seeing him, we will beat him. What he told us is not what he is doing.”
Meanwhile, a fresh round of protests has broken out in Suleja, the commercial nerve centre of Niger State which is only a few kilometres away to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The angry Nigerians stormed the streets on Wednesday, calling on the Tinubu-led government to end the hardship and unbearable inflation they were suffering.
“There is protest ongoing at the Suleja local government area of Niger State. They are calling on Tinubu to end the hardship the masses are suffering on a daily basis in the country,” a witness said.
Recall that hundreds of men, women and youths in Minna, the Niger State capital also staged a protest against the rising inflation in the country on Monday through Tuesday.
They had also lamented the hikes in the prices of gas and fuel in the country.
Videos showed that the protesters blocked major roads as they lamented that there was no government effort to arrest the situation of the rising cost of food items.
The protesters had been heard chanting protest songs, while security agents including policemen looked on.
However, Yakubu Garba, Deputy Governor of Niger State, had said the government was aware of the pain and hardship facing families in the country.
Yakubu had told the protesters that the government was working towards reducing the cost of living and the economic implications of the petrol subsidy removal. https://twitter.com/i/status/1755201100938953204
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