![]() ![]() “When they told us about the planned electricity tariff increase we told them to put it on hold. “When you are bring about some policies, you must also look at the timing and how to phase them out in order not to make the people to suffer. The patience of Nigerians, their endurance level is getting to a limit and it may get to a point that they won’t be able to take this anymore. Osifo added: “You cannot add insults to injury because things are relatively hard today. ![]() The TUC leader also hailed the suspension of the planned increase in electricity tariff. “We want the governors to come up with things that will ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians.” The Nigeria Govenor’s Forum should do better, they should come up with things that are much more specific. So for us, we don’t really trust the process. “We all remembered the issue of #Endsars when people were hungry and dying on the streets and palliatives were in the warehouses. Not something that you will promise us and at the end of the day we don’t know where any of those items have gone. He added: “Anything we call palliative must be things that we can verify. Even if the government said it wants to transfer N50, 000 to Nigerians, the question is: where is the data? How can the data be verified?,” the TUC leader asked. “We raised that red flag and thank God they have listened. He commended the President Bola Tinubu-led administration for shunning its earlier decision to share N8,000 to 12 million vulnerable households. If the National Assembly cannot give a clear cut justification on what they think they are doing we will lead the entire Nigerian masses to besiege the National Assembly.” But in a situation where they push a lot of poverty to the masses and they are living in affluence we will not allow that to work. “The executive, legislature and judiciary must lead from the front while we follow them from behind as the followers. We have some offices where civil servants buy chairs with their money and take them to their offices to work. If you go to some ministries today, people are working without light in some parastatals today the toilets are not working. They said it is about their condition of work. “Recently there was an uproar because the National Assembly wanted to purchase vehicles worth N40 billion and they earmarked N70 billion to be shared.
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