-supports street protest

The Coalition of Oodua Self Determination Groups, COSEG, have come against the recent hike in the pump price of petroleum, threatening to mobilize against its implementation.A statement made available to Irohinoodua by the group insisted that the pan Yoruba group will resist the new government measure.
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The press statement signed by Ifedayo Ogunlana and Rasaq Olokooba, Chairman and Secretary, respectively, described the new price policy of the Federal Government as announced by the Minister of State of Petroleum, as “callous and a way not to reward Nigerians who are currently undergoing stress as a result of the lingering economic recession in the country.”

The group said it rejects the “dubious policy and will therefore mobilise the people to come out en-masse to show their grievances against the policy.

COSEG said “when Buhari was elected, the Nigerian people thought his government would proffer solutions to their problems. But with this new policy of indirectly hiking fuel pump price and indirectly fixing the price at N145, we know we have goofed.

“We therefore reject this new policy and will mobilise and join millions of Nigerians on the street to reject it. We are going to the street to demand the reversal of the evil policy, th release reads

He group further said “Nigerians cannot be taken for a ride for so long a time. The Federal Government is taking the respect the people have for Buhari to the pit ‎. The average Nigerians today are finding it hard to eat and this government is compounding their problems day in day out".

Ogunlana called on Government to act responsibly and proactively, saying “government should behave as a government who must carry out its responsibility of blocking the loopholes in the petroleum management. We Nigerians cannot be suffering for their ineptitudes.”

The group further said it support the ongoing ‎anti corruption drive of the government, saying “we restate our support for the ongoing Anti corruption stand of the government but the Government must move its anti corruption stand to the petroleum sector too by ensuring that nobody shortchange through its subsidy policy.

“The outright removal of subsidy will never be supported,” it said.