Frank urges NLC, TUC, CSOs to shutdown Nigeria over fuel price, electricity tariff hike

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank on Thursday urged the leadership of the organised Labour in Nigeria to mobilise and shutdown the country in reaction to astronomical hike in fuel price and electricity tariff by the Federal Government.

He also called on the National Assembly to urgently reconvene and speak on behalf of Nigerians who elected them just like the 7th National Assembly did in 2012 when fuel was increased from N65.00 to N140.00 by the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, in January 2012.

Frank who made these assertions in a statement in Abuja, also strongly condemned the increase in the price of petrol from N148.50 to N151.56 per litre by the Pipeline Products Marketing Company (PPMC) and electricity tariff from N22.00 to N66.00 per kilowatt by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).

He called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigerian (PENGASSAN), Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Nigerian Median Association (NMA), Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other Civil Society Organisation (CSOs),to rise up and defend weak, poor and helpless masses in the face of this massive and unbearable onslaught against their very being.

“The NLC has rejected the evil price increase through a statement, it is now time for the Ayuba Wabba leadership of the Union to match their words with action on the streets just like ex-NLC President, Abdulwaheed Omar, did in collaboration with the Change Nigeria Group (CNG) in 2012,” Frank said.

He said that the fuel price and electricity tariff increase are most untenable especially at a period when crude oil prices have plummeted internationally and while majority of Nigerians who are unmetered are languishing under the yoke of estimated billing respectively.

“The action of the Federal Government in hiking the prices of essentials goods and services, like fuel and electricity, is tantamount to removing economic ventilators from majority of Nigerians on life support due to COV-poverty.

“This is manifestly anti-God, anti-people, unacceptable, provocative, oppressive, insensitive, wicked, satanic and a total negation of the social contract between a people and its Government,” Frank declared.

According to him, since the primary function of Government is to seek the welfare and security of its citizens, the Federal Government must as a matter of urgency increase the nation’s minimum wage to N100,000.00 to mitigate its induced rise in the cost of living.

He called on the Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to urgently reverse the increases as well as reduce its over- bloated cost of governance by 50 per cent in order to conserve scarce resources.

The Bayelsa-born political activist lamented that rather than follow international best practices in giving Nigerians stimulus packages to cushion the harsh effects of the current economic downturn, occasioned by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Government has chosen to deliberately inflict pain and impoverish Nigerians.

“The duty of Government is to shield its people, especially the poor and vulnerable population, from the harsh effects of market forces and not to heap pain and anguish on them under the guise of full deregulation.

“Why have they chosen to increase the burdens of Nigerians rather than lighten them?
Why have they chosen to give Nigerians stones instead of bread? Why have they chosen to give Nigerians snakes instead of fish?

“It is dangerous for the Federal Government to aid a tiny cabal in preying on the people in order to satisfy their ostentatious cravings,” Frank said.

According to him, the Federal Government should be mindful of political upheavals in Sudan and Mali following its kind of anti-people policies and actions.

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Signed

Comrade Timi Frank
Political Activist and ex-Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC


Source: https://ngg.ng/frank-urges-nlc-tuc-csos-to-shutdown-nigeria-over-fuel-price-electricity-tariff-hike/

PdP idiot!

this 9ja don become truly a shithole.. nothing to be proud of.
everything is just somehow. nothing is more annoying that knowing for a fact some bastards are supporting all this rubbish from this government.

This is just the beginning...

N162 is affordable

People are still arguing about Erica and kidwaya

Stories, there is nothing that can be done. Nigerian students should get ready for increase in tuition fees very soon

CilicMarin:
PdP idiot!

When he made efforts to oust the PDP government and installed your vegetable president...He was never an idiot.


But because he stood against tyranny and ineptitude and ineffectiveness of this regime....you have now tagged him to PDP...

But this man supported and campaigned for Atiku in 2019, and Atiku was going to sell NNPC to the private sectors. Would he have sold NNPC and retain subsidy? Would a private investor sell petrol below cost of production or landing costs?



I AM DONE TALKING

CilicMarin:
PdP idiot!

APC rretarded*

Let's go.

We can postpone this market driven price regime.

Any one who will ascend the seat of Nigeria presidency will always consider complete removal of government hands from price control on fuel price.

The corruption in the system is sinking all of us.

Subsidy remains a money making means for some Nigerians at the expense of the poor population.

I will advise Buhari not to withdraw it at this trying time.

Timing is not right for now.

Join the movement... quote me..

This shit hole is breaking up slowly but steadily... I laugh at anyone who feels there hope for this country... There is more hope for Afghanistan than Nigeria....



Everyone knows we're rich in every single thing except human development..

So lol everyone is just waiting for it to break so that they can Scramble for it... China being wise is making investments already... You wont see trains in the south, but you will see them were the Chinese feel there will be a lot of confusion after the break hence pretending to put everything back on will quench the confusion and turn the people to slaves....



The only people I pity are the middle beltans because the little christianity left there will be quenched should a break occur...because as the maps say there are in the middle belt but are still part of the north......



The yoruba's are like wolfs very intelligent and very hard working,but the dog part of a wolf has made him loyal to the bird just because it has wings... The bird eats up everything the wolf helps catch and remains just enough to keep the wolf loyal... But imagine a pack of wolfs ruled by wolfs .



The ibgos..are elephants very powerful and majestic and can make it we're everyone else can't.., but when it comes to putting forces together everyone starts remembering which elephant lives in the jungle, or which lives in the plains or which lives in the Savannah.. they too have become loyal to the bird not because it has wings but because each group of elephants have sent envoys without the knowledge of each other to the bird who tells each of them the same thing and that is "you are greater than your brother" a lie they believe.



The Niger deltans.. are a group of bees living together in a colony providing honey to the bird who promises not to eat them provided they shut up and keep producing honey.. even when the the bird is also spoiling their comb by taking more than honey.. they don't complain because when they do the bird eats few of them and no other bee wants to be eaten so a swarm of bees who are a million more plentier and stronger shuts up...the queen bees prefer to be submissive even when they are a greater foe.....



Whose the bird, I'll leave you to answer..



Here's to who we are!!

Bunch of hypocritical cowards...

But not for long fellas..



#join_the_movement

JAMO84:
But this man supported and campaigned for Atiku in 2019, and Atiku was going to sell NNPC to the private sectors. Would he have sold NNPC and retain subsidy? Would a private investor sell petrol below cost of production or landing costs?



I AM DONE TALKING

Frank was probably the friend penned to buy Nnpc ni o.

My disagreement with Buhari on this is the timing.

Just like my disagreement with GEJ in 2012 was the timing.

Fuel subsidy can not be removed under the burden of this covid 19.

Let things improve a bit before we can think of it.

Toothless bulldogs they all are

Frank, you guys are amongst the people that put us in this mess. I am surprised that a former APC whatever will come out to castigate the poverty that he helped in creating for Nigerians.
APC has failed us and all that supported them shall know no peace
Mtchew!!!

Both pdp and APC had failed us?

I think we Nigerians are built to keep failing.

What we are complaining about leadership in Nigeria is happening in:
Homes
Streets
Associations
Markets
Churches and mosques.
Every mind seems corrupt,
Yet we are looking for a clean one out of dirty people.

Go to Alaba market, you may lose all your money without getting what you wanted.

Scams all the way.

I have stopped pointing accusing fingers.

We only manifest what we are made of.

Since we are money worshippers,

Stop expecting good results.

We all are responsible at our various levels for the ills facing our nation.