The Joint Action Front (JAF) Wednesday in Ibadan kicked off its mass mobilisation of Nigerians against the increment in the price of petroleum and electricity tariff in Ibadan.
Speaking at the mass mobilisation, JAF coordinator in Oyo state, Professor Ademola Aremu, asked Nigerians to be ready to resist the increment in electricity tariff and fuel price hike.
Prof Aremu, while addressing journalists at the commencement of the rally at the front gate of the University of Ibadan, disclosed that the mass mobilisation marked the beginning of nationwide protest against the hikes.
” Today’s mass mobilisation is the third of such independent activities in the past nine years that JAF would rally nationwide resistance of labour, CSOs and the suffering majority of Nigerians against hikes in prices of fuel and electricity. First, was the declaration of Mass Actions on December 20, 2011, which commenced on January 3, 2012 and culminated into the January Uprising of January 9 – 16, 2012,” he said.
Emphasising that the mass mobilisation might put all activities in the country to a stand
still if their demands are not meet, Aremu stressed that it was unfortunate that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has failed to keep to its promises to reduce the price of petroleum to N40.
The JAF coordinator tasked Nigerians to join the protest in a bid to resist the “obnoxious policies of the present administration”, adding that, there will be no going back in the demand for the reversal of the petroleum price, reversal of electrify tariff and cancelation of stamp duty.
