The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, on Monday asked the Federal Government to begin the importation of food to curb the increasing prices of food across the country.
President of TUC, Festus Osifo, during a press conference on the economic hardship ravaging the country in Abuja.
According to him, this is the first time Nigerians are witnessing this level of hardship not even during military regimes.
He added that the government’s poor patronage of locally made products and services, and lack of capable hands at the helm of affairs is part of the reasons for the hardship.
“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 Nigerians consumption within the next two weeks,” he added.
Osifo urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently strengthen the economic management team of his administration and look beyond party or tribal lines to headhunt the best Nigerians throughout the world who could sit down and develop homegrown solutions to the hardship menace.
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