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Protests Begins In Kano Against FGs Anti-poor Economic Policies

The protest in Kano was spearheaded by the Joint Action Front (JAF) coordinated the demonstration.

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Nigerian northern state, Kano will be the first in the region as residents hit the streets to protest against what the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) described as anti-poor economic policies of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

VerseNews Nigeria reports that the Tuesday’s protest in the state is a test run of the planned Wednesday’s nationwide protest by the NLC against the hike of petrol price from N195 to N617, naira devaluation, astronomical increase in school fees initiated by the new government of President Tinubu.

The protest in Kano was spearheaded by the Joint Action Front (JAF) coordinated the demonstration.

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This Online News Media has learnt that ahead of Wednesday’s protest by the NLC, the Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) and Coalition for Revolution (CORE) have declared their total support for the nationwide action.

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The civic organisations in a joint declaration, signed by Femi Falana (ASCAB), Baba Ayelabola (CORE), and Achike Chude (JAF) after a meeting on Sunday, which was made available to SaharaReporters on Monday, had said they would join in the protest until victory was achieved.

Titled: “August 2nd, 2023 as the beginning of nationwide resistance against fuel price hike and anti-poor policies is sacrosanct,” the civic organisations had said that the minimum aim of the forthcoming struggle is the reversal of the “criminal hike of petrol from N617 to N195, reversal of other criminal policies like fee hike in public tertiary institutions, devaluation of the naira” which they noted had made life unbearable on Nigerian masses.

“We support the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to call Nigerian workers and poor masses out on protest starting from Wednesday, August 2, 2023, against the wicked and neoliberal policies of the President Tinubu government, including, the severe hike in the price of petrol and devaluation of the naira.”

The organisations tasked the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) with unity in their engagement with the Federal Government and encourage them to jointly mobilise for mass action.

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