Umaru Saidu, a youth in his late 20s has decried that he cannot buy a meal with N1,000 due to the skyrocketing cost of commodities, which he said influenced him to join the protest.
Sairu, who joined protesters at the Federal Ministry of Finance Headquarters, expressed his displeasure on Thursday, August 1.
He said, “In this country that we all own, We can’t sustain ourselves with N1000. I can’t even buy a meal with N1,000.”
Another protesters Bayo said he will not give up until the right policies are made.
Bayo said, “It is unfair that we will be suffering because of policies that were not well applied by the Bola Tinubu government.”
Another protester who identified herself as Aisha, an indegene of Kano State told NewsNGR that she is a peasant trader and has not been able to feed her children since inflation rose.
The Abuja resident said, “For me, I don’t think any Nigerian should be insensitive to the suffering of others regardless of political affiliations.
“I have three children and I do not know where my next meal will come from. “
Nigerians had written to the Bola Tinubu government of the protest, which will last for 10 days, ending Auguest 10, 2024.
Last year, when President Tinubu was sworn in, he made a famous statement that “subsidy is gone.”
But, the government has been accused of not putting palliative in place to reduce the impact of the subsidy removal.
When the subsidy was removed, prices of premium motor spirit jumped from around N178 to N620 per litre.
As of June, the product is selling above N1,000 in some fuel stations. The Central Bank of Nigeria equally floated the currency in June 2023, leading to massive depreciation of the naira.
Currently, the naira has fallen above N1600 per dollar from N550 last year.
The impacts of the policies have led to a jump in inflation, which was measured at 33.4 per cent.
Prices of some food items, according to the NBS, have reached over 250 per cent year-on-year.