CD rejects N97 fuel price

Members of the Civil Society Organisations, on Monday in Lagos, rejected the N97 pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, as approved by President Goodluck Jonathan in his nationwide broadcast. Also, over 3,000 protesters, in defiance of the stay at home order of the organised labour, took to the streets of Lagos on Monday but were barred from gaining entry to the Gani Fawehinmi Park at Ojota by a combined team of soldiers and policemen.

Threatening to carry on with the protest, the protesters later relocated to the African Shrine, off Agidingbi road, Ikeja.

Reacting to the development, the Campaign for Democracy (CD) in a statement signed by its coordinator, Dr Joe Okei Odumakin, said the deployment of soldiers in Gani Fawehinmi park and across the metropolis was a clear signal that the Jonathan administration was bent on trampling on the wishes of Nigerians to resist an unjust and wicked fuel hike.

‘We reject the pump price of N97 and call on the people of Nigeria to continue the struggle against the fuel price hike, until this arrogant regime bows to the wishes of the people,” the statement said.






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