The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has offered solutions to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration on how to end Nigeria’s raging economic hardship.
TUC said the government must immediately import food from abroad to end the ongoing hunger crisis in Nigeria.
President of TUC, Festus Osifo, disclosed this during a press conference on the economic hardship ravaging the country on Monday in Abuja.
Osifo lamented that Nigerians have never witnessed this level of hardship before, even during military regimes, adding that the problems are not unconnected to the government’s poor patronage of locally made products and services and lack of capable hands at the helm of affairs.
“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 around 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. Federal Government should allow importation of food items for Nigerians consumption within the next two weeks, ” Osifo said.
The TUC president advised President Bola Tinubu to, as a matter of urgency, strengthen the economic management team of his administration and also 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.
OsunDailyNG recalls that the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, had insisted on nationwide protests on February 27 and 28 over economic hardship.
Niger, Kogi, Lagos, and Oyo states had witnessed protests over the country’s economic challenges in recent times.
