The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ekiti chapter, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to take critical actions that would make his change agenda has positive impacts on the lives of Nigerians.
The labour group urged Buhari to make meaningful changes to his economic team, so that his much touted change mantra won’t end up like a
mere slogan without productive effects on the lives of the citizens.
The Chairman of the Congress, Com Ade Adesanmi , said this in his Sallah message to Nigerian Muslims in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday.
Adesanmi said what Buhari promised Nigerians before the March 28 , 2015 presidential poll was life full of abundance for Nigerian citizens and not the hardship being presently witnessed by the populace.
“President Buhari campaigned in all the 36 states of the federation and what he promised us was life full of peace and abundance.
“However, the president has been able to give us peace by way of tackling Boko Haram insurgents while he has also taken decisive actions against militancy in the Niger Delta, but the issue of the receding economy as shown in the skyrocketing prices of goods and services and callous losses of jobs by Nigerians are worrisome.
“President Buhari did not promise that a bag of rice which was sold for N9,000 will be sold for N40,000, he didn’t promise that a bag of cement which was sold for N1,500 will be sold for N2,500 within one year he assumed office, he didn’t promise that a litre of petrol which cost N87 will be jacked up to N145, among other food items which prices have jumped up in four folds.
“The APC-led federal government must look beyond its party to solving our economic problems. We suggest that President Buhari must rejig his economic team. He must make changes before things get out of hands.
“As much as we align with the idea of relying on Nigerian products to grow our economy, we disagree with the idea of total ban placed on some food items to allow internal production of such commodity.
“Of particular reference, the Federal Government should lift ban placed on rice importation and set a minimum of three years to allow for internal production of rice before effecting the ban. This I think will be the best way for Nigeria to get out of the famine ravaging the land”, he advised.
Adesanmi , who appealed to Muslims to continue to co-exist peacefully with their Christian brothers, called on politicians to stop politicizing the economic recession that is heating up the system.
“This is the time for sober reflection and not a time to apportion blames. We have a problem at hand that is affecting very Nigerian, both high and low and the best way to get out of it is to make good suggestions that will be in the interest of all Nigerians rather than making political capital out of an unfortunate situation,” Adesanmi advised.
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