Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has told the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to forget about national pride and begin the importation of food in order to bring down the high prices of food commodities in Nigeria.
The President of TUC, Festus Osifo, said this during a press conference on Monday in Abuja.
Osifo said the hardship currently experienced by Nigerians was unprecedented, and he blamed this on this leadership of the country.
“Nigerians must live to see tomorrow before we can understand how beautiful a government policy is. The national pride of 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 assist to reduce the hyper-inflation of food in the country. FG should allow importation of food items for Nigerians consumption within the next two weeks,” he said.