Fuel Subsidy: We'll Mobilize Against The Federal Government --NANS

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), on the other hand, had no bureaucratic bottlenecks to contend with, when it declared that it would mobilise its members across the country to protest against the increment until government reverses the price of petrol.

Speaking with THISDAY, NANS President, Mr. Tijani Usman Shehu, said yesterday: “We condemn it in totality and the leadership of NANS will do everything within its power to ensure that this pump price is reversed to N87.
“When President Muhammadu Buhari came into office, he assured Nigerians that he was going to reduce fuel pump price to N50. So we want to believe that he is a man of integrity and a man of honour.

“Nigerians believed him and it is in view of this that when we got the sudden news yesterday (Wednesday) in the morning that subsidy had been removed, we sat down and had an emergency meeting yesterday (Wednesday) at 12 pm to 2 pm with the executive leadership of NANS and came up with a position that Nigerian students will condemn the price hike in its totality.”
Shehu revealed that by next Tuesday, all zonal structures will embark on a nationwide protest, adding that between Wednesday and Thursday, NANS members would converge in Abuja in continuation of their protest.

“We want to believe on or before Thursday, the pump price of petrol would have been reversed. If it is not done, we shall demand that Mr. President redresses the matter,” the NANS president said.
Also, the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) and Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, in an interview with THISDAY, said: “Nobody is happy with the increase. It means more suffering, so more pain has been added to the already existing pain of Nigerians.”

THISDAY reports