FG insensitive to plight of Nigerians; Fuel subsidy removal with a robust intervention, is not only antisocial but also outrageously iniquitous – CUPP

The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, on Wednesday , lampooned the Federal Government on what it described as “crazy and unending fuel price hikes driving inflation to the rooftops and making life increasingly unbearable for Nigerians”.

CUPP, in a statement by its National Co-Spokesperson, Mr Mark Adebayo, frowned at the sudden price hike barely a month after the fuel price was increased to over 300% in May 29th this year.

Adebayo said: “It has come to the attention of the CUPP the sudden and surreptitious increase yet again in the pump prices of petrol by NNPCL which has immediately started having negative domino effects on all other commodities and services in the country and further drowning most Nigerians into excruciating poverty and unprecedented economic woes.

“This subsidy removal scheme is increasingly looking like a scam to cage Nigerians inside a preprogrammed regime of socioeconomic slavery dictated by leadership insensitivity. This is not about opposition Parties. The opposition actually felt that the president had something better to offer Nigerians after the subsidy removal but what we are witnessing now is a double negative impact on Nigerians in every way imaginable.

“The way NNPCL is behaving now suggests that there is a hidden agenda of crazy and unending fuel price hikes that will be driving inflation to the rooftops and making life increasingly unbearable for Nigerians generally.

“No purposeful government would recklessly abandon its citizens to the unpredictable and inhumane market forces that are essentially atrocious and callous in nature without a robust intervention to protect the citizens. Such a policy is not only antisocial but also outrageously iniquitous.