The Senate on Wednesday, urged Nigerians and promoters of the nationwide protests to shelve their plans in the interest of the nation.
- By Naomi Sharang
- The Senate on Wednesday, urged Nigerians and promoters of the nationwide protests to shelve their plans in the interest of the nation.
- President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, made the call during plenary after a closed-door session of the senators in Abuja.
- Various groups in the country are planning to stage a nationwide protest from Aug. 1 to Aug. 10 against President Bola Tinubu government following alleged rise in cost of goods and services, poverty and hunger in the country.
- Akpabio said: “The Senate in a closed-session deliberated on issues bothering on its workings in particular and the National Assembly in general.
- “The senate particularly reviewed the current situation as regards the impending protest slated for Aug. 1 and accordingly urges that one year is not long enough to judge the present government.
- “One year is not long enough for the policies being implemented by the current administration of President Bola Tinubu to yield the desired results.
- “The Senate urges the protesters to give the government more time to address their demands considering the measures being put in place to ameliorate the situation in the country.”
- Akpabio identified the measures to include: the signing of the National Minimum Wage Act, the sale of crude oil to local refiners in Naira, and the implementation of Students Loan Act.
- Others, he said, are the assent recently granted to the South-East and North-West Development Commissions bills passed by the National Assembly to further address developments at the grassroots.
- He said that the Senate was willing to legislate on all matters that would bring about succuor to Nigerians in general. (NAN)
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