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Honourable Rasheed Elegbeleye who is the Minority leader of the Ondo state House of Assembly, has disagreed with the sudden increment in the price of petrol amidst the ongoing pandemic. A decision he described as insensitive.
The lawmaker, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) in the state said that this was not the best of times for the government of the nation to add to the burden on the citizenry whose various means of survival had been adversely affected by the ravaging virus.
Elegbeleye, who represents Akoko North-East constituency in the House, while speaking to newsmen in Akure, said that “the move will unarguably increase the suffering been passed through by Nigerians who were already been weighed down with the COVID-19 pandemic.”
He advised that the pump price increment should be suspended immediately in order to relieve the citizens of the enormous hardship they are already faced with. Elegbeleye said that the logical thing to be done now was for the increment to be reversed and suspended.
In his statement, he said: “while other countries have been devising ways to cushion the effect of the economic impact the pandemic had on their citizens it is saddening that Nigeria is towing the opposite. N150 is nothing but wickedness. This is a period where many jobs had been lost with many people still don’t know what to expect next.
He continued by saying: “This is not the best gift to Nigerians who are still struggling to come to terms with the hardship at this trying time. Unlike other countries where citizens received palliatives from their government, our government is compounding the woes of the people.”
Fatimah Oyesanmi
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