The Joint Action Front (JAF) has issued a call to action, urging Nigerians to take to the streets in protest of President Bola Tinubu’s policies, which the group claims are detrimental to the well-being of the people. In addition, JAF cites the high cost of living as a major contributing factor to the growing discontent in the country.
The Joint Action Front (JAF), in a statement issued, signed by Secretary Comrade Abiodun Aremu and Chairperson Dr. Dipo Fashina, strongly criticizes President Tinubu’s policies as “unapologetically anti-people” and a “monumental failure.” The statement highlights several specific areas where the JAF believes the administration has fallen short, including economic and social policies. It also calls on the government to address these issues and take action to improve the lives of the people.
The statement reads, “The preexisting cost of living crisis has become much worse as a result of its poisonous policies of both the criminal hikes in petrol prices under the guise of subsidy removal and the devastating devaluation of the naira.
“These two evil policies, which are in line with the dictates of the IMF and World Bank institutions, have made the prices of goods and services to go beyond the capacity of the vast majority of the population.
“Also, the deepening economic crisis has compounded the rising state of insecurity in the country.”
“We urge the leaderships of Labour not to make this ultimatum another mere hot air ritual, but a serious warning of an impending resistance action.
“This arrangee Tinubu Government should be taken for what it is. It may on the eve of the expiration of the ultimatum begin another pseudo jumbo award to feign seriousness, just as in the illusory release of whatever is the national food reserves!
“JAF would, instead, specifically propose to the NLC and TUC a 48-hour general strike and mass protest as the next step. The demands should be, in addition to the implementation of “16-point agreement” with Government, the reversal of the neo-liberal policies of deregulation and devaluation, that are at the immediate cause of the current crisis,”