The activist and President of the Centre for Change and Women Arise, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, has said that the increase in electricity tariff and petrol price would worsen the hardship in the country.
The activist said this in a press statement titled, ‘No to further hardship’ on Sunday.
In her view, President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration chose the wrong time to increase the price of fuel and electricity tariffs.
She said, “The recent hike in the prices of fuel products and electricity tariff is woeful combination of hardship from a Government that was making sweet promises to the people over a year ago.
“To choose a moment when governments around the world are looking for ways to make life bearable for their peoples in the midst of coronavirus cannot be an attitude reflective of a caring government.
“These steps are not acceptable and should not be accepted.
“Nigerians are encouraged to rediscover themselves and say a clear no to these measures.
“While the Buhari government should have taken the respite offered by the patience of the people as golden opportunity to fulfill its election promises of a better life for Nigerians, it should not take it as liberty to continue to inflict further hardship on the people.”
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