Pro Labour/Civil Society Partner in the Coalition against the removal of fuel subsidy, the Joint Action Front (JAF) has called on Nigerians to boycott and shut down any Filling Station, which sells fuel above the pre-subsidy removal prices.
Before the Goodluck Jonathan government announced its removal of the subsidy in a First of January stunner today, prices were: petrol, N65 a litre; kerosene, N50 a litre; and diesel, N70 a litre.
JAF further urged all well meaning 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.
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.
On Saturday, JAF announced a mass action scheduled for January 3rd at the Nigeria Labour Congress in Yaba, Lagos. In Sunday’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.
Following the removal of petrol subsidy, petrol will now sell for N141 across Nigeria.
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