The Joint Action Front (JAF) has called on Nigerians to boycott and shut down any gas station, which sells fuel above the pre-subsidy removal prices.
The Joint Action Front (JAF) has called on Nigerians to boycott and shut down any gas station, which sells fuel above the pre-subsidy removal prices.
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Before the Goodluck Jonathan government announced its removal of the subsidy in a First of January stunner today, those prices were: petrol, N65 a litre; kerosene, N50 a litre; and diesel, N70 a litre. Following the removal, petrol will now sell for N141.
JAF, the pro-labour civil society partner in the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), further urged Nigerians to use mass action to enforce stay-at-home and strike actions whenever labour and its allies in LASCO declares such a move.
Strongly condemning the Jonathan presidency for its decision to inflict unnecessary suffering and punishment on Nigerians, JAF demanded that the nation’s four refineries be made to work and new ones also built in order to make petroleum products cheaper and affordable to all.
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It further demanded a new political and economic order that will end the era of privatisation, deregulation, looting and exploitation by the corrupt capitalist ruling cabals and ensure that wealth of the country is judiciously applied.
Yesterday, JAF announced a mass action scheduled for January 3rd at the Nigeria Labour Congress in Yaba, Lagos.
In today’s statement, it reminded Nigerians that the mass action is in force, and urged them to join the struggle wherever they are to reject and resist the hike in prices.
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