The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has asked the Federal Government to begin importation of food to mitigate the hardship occasioned by the soaring prices of food in the country.
The President of TUC, Festus Osifo, disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Monday, noting that Nigerians have never witnessed this level of hardship before, even during military regimes.
He added that the problems are not unconnected to the government’s poor patronage of locally made products and services and a lack of capable hands at the helm of affairs.
The TUC president said, “Nigerians must live to see tomorrow before we can understand how beautiful government policy is. The national pride in 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 help reduce the hyper-inflation of food in the country. FG should allow the importation of food items for Nigerian consumption within the next two weeks,” he said.
Osifo advised President Bola Tinubu to urgently 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.
By – Opeoluwa Micheal-Ayobami
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