…as APC accuses opposition parties of master-minding protests
Kano residents have come out in large numbers to protest the high cost of living in the country. The protesters who were mainly youths, carried placards along Airport Road and Murtala Mohammed Way, chanting various demands and decried the high cost of living which they described as unfair to Nigerians.
In an interview with Arise TV, one of the protesters, Abba Maji Baki, a resident of Kano metropolis said, “what our leaders are doing to us is so unfair and we have been pushed to the wall. Life is so difficult that our children can no longer go to school due to hunger and our inability to pay their school fees. Prices of food items keep increasing on a daily basis.”
Another protester, Awwalu Leda, in an interview with Arise TV, lamented the cost of a bag of rice in the market amidst the current level of hardship in the country. He said, “we are really suffering in this country, a bag of local rice is around N60,000, we can no longer afford it and our children are just sitting at home. There is no money to pay for their school fees, this is not what we expect from the Federal Government.”
The youths, among other demands, called on President Bola Tinubu to open up the Nigerian borders and restore subsidy on petrol. The protesting youths described the closure of the Nigerian borders as ‘the major action that plunged the Nigerian economy into hardship’.
Similarly, a group of protesting women had earlier blocked the ever-busy Minna-Bida Road, protesting the high cost of living and called on President Bola Tinubu to address the problem of ‘hunger in the land’.
Meanwhile the APC has accused the opposition parties of sponsoring these protests. A statement issued by the national publicity secretary of the party, Felix Morka in Abuja, accused the opposition party of master-minding these protests.
The national public secretary described it as a desperate attempt to portray the APC-led administration as underperforming. Felix Morka implored Nigerians to be vigilant and not lend themselves to the treacherous attempt by the opposition to promote social strife by its incendiary rhetoric and manipulative plots.
