We’ll shut down Nigeria if fuel prices increase – Niger Delta activist

A Niger Delta rights activist, Israel Joe, has asked the Federal Government not to make real its proposed increase in prices of petroleum products.

He warned that civil society organisations would not hesitate to shut down Nigeria if the Federal Government went ahead with such plan.

Joe, who stated this in a statement in Warri, said Nigerians would no longer tolerate the hardship brought upon them by the present regime at the centre.

He said, “Nigerians will no longer tolerate the hardship brought upon us by this government. We listened gleefully to the speech of the President and it…