Edo CSOs Protest Fuel Scarcity, Others News
premium motor spirit popularly called petrol and exorbitant prices charged on the product by the few filing stations who have the product.
Afraid that the protest could turn violent, some schools sent text messages to parents as early as 6:30 informing them that schools were not going to open for academic activities. There was heavy security presence in all the flash points as early as 6 am yesterday as armed policemen, armoured vehicles, members of the Edo State Vigilante Group, Public Works Volunteers manned strategic areas of the city, especially Ring Road, Ugbowo near the University of Benin main gate, parts of Sapele Road and other areas.
One of the leaders of EDOCSO, Leftist Omobude Agho said the recent hike in the petroleum pump price is anti-people and Nigerians can no longer endure the present hardship. He said, “Fuel has become N700 and minimum wage is N30,000. Bag of rice is over N50,000 and the minimum wage is still N30,000.“Before, we say we will resist them but now, we will fight them. Anywhere you see black marketers, pursue them, and don’t pity them that they are poor. Anybody that is wicked whether poor or rich, is wicked.
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