Hardship: TUC Dares FG To Import Food

To mitigate the impact of nationwide food price increases, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has dared the federal government to start importing necessities right away.

Festus Osifo, the TUC President, disclosed this at a news conference on Monday, February 26, 2024, in Abuja, on the economic misery sweeping the nation.

Osifo bemoaned the fact that Nigerians, even during military regimes, had never experienced such extreme poverty. He also pointed out that the government’s inadequate support of locally produced goods and services, as well as the absence of competent leadership, were contributing factors to the issues.

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Osifo said, “Nigerians must live to see tomorrow before we can understand how beautiful a government policy is. The national pride of striving to achieve food sufficiency locally should be temporarily relaxed. Governments at all levels should immediately purchase sufficient quantities of food items from different parts of the world and share them with vulnerable Nigerians.

“Importing food abroad at this point will assist to reduce the hyper-inflation of food in the country. FG should allow importation of food items for Nigerians consumption within the next two weeks.’’

The TUC President advised President Bola Tinubu to as a matter of urgency strengthen the economic management team of his administration and also look beyond party or tribal lines to headhunt the best Nigerians throughout the world who could sit down and develop homegrown solutions to the hardship menace.