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From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha
The Southern Nigerian People’s Mandate (SNPM) has blasted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the increase in electricity tariff.
The political group said that the electricity hike to 300 per cent will add to the already scorching hardship and suffering being passed through by Nigerians.
A statement by the President of SNPM, Mr Augustine Chukwudum, said that President Tinubu’s 11 months administration has been anti-masses as many policies and programmes so far tend to be hard on the masses where hunger and starvation have been the order of the day.
He called on the President to call the NERC boss to cancel the hike and revert to the old tariff to allow the poor Nigerians to breathe.
“The reason for the increase of the tariff, which is not acceptable to suffering masses who are struggling to get a meal a day, according to NERC they are increasing is because of the higher cost of diesel and the skyrocketing of the USA dollar. As far as Nigerians are concerned, it is not their fault that the dollar has been exchanged from N1200 to N1300.
“SNPM has been clamouring to President Tinubu to strengthen our currency by reducing it to N200 to one dollar and further reduce it to N100 to one dollar by September 2024, but Mr president ignored our clarion calls to do the right thing by reducing our suffering. Instead, the administration is busy doing everything possible to make sure that the suffering is getting harder daily.
“It is because our National Assembly members have been pocketed by the President whose agenda is to make sure that suffering masses of Nigeria do not survive, that is why we are telling the world to know that we are moving from bad to worst.
“This government is not interested in the cry of the suffering and dying masses of Nigeria that they are committing one economic genocide to another against the people that are supposed to be leading instead they are rulers, which is tyrant and dictatorship which is not acceptable and must be stopped,
“We hereby call on President Tinubu to stop NERC with immediate effect from going ahead with the tariff hike because Nigerians are finding it difficult to eat once a day.
“SNPM hereby calls on the civil society to wake up so that we join together to checkmate this administration of President Tinubu that doesn’t have human sympathy, because we don’t have a representative who will checkmate this government bad policy apart from us, that’s why we are calling on civil society to wakeup” Chukwudum stated.
