Tribune
AN amalgam of civil society groups and political actors have vowed to shut down Nigeria again, like they did nearly a decade back, if the Federal Government goes ahead with its plan to increase fuel and electricity prices in 2022.
In 2012, forces opposed to fuel price hike by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan shut the country down for almost two weeks, in an operation codenamed ‘Occupy Nigeria’.
Leaders of the effective protests which crippled the country, as opposition elements then, are now senior operatives in the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, which is seeking to upwardly adjust both fuel and electricity costs as done multiple times in the last six years of the administration.
The coalition operating under the Peoples Alternative Political Movement (TPAP-M), in a communique after a public meeting with allies, threatened to shut the country down again, as the anniversary of the 2012 shutdown draws near.
“The public meeting was very well attended by groups and individuals from across the country, including the affiliates of TPAP-M, the Coalition on NGO Networks in Northern Nigeria, Trade Union Congress, AUPCTRE, Campaign for Transformative Governance (CFTG), representatives of informal sector workers, women formations, and youth and young persons, including those who continue to play front line roles in the #EndSARS movement” the communique signed by Comrades Omotoye Olorode, a Professor of Botany and Jaye Gaskia, reads in part.
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