Bauchi Traders, Artisans Plea For Halt Planned Protest

BY KHALID IDRIS DOYA, Bauchi

Chairman of Amalgamated Union of Bauchi State Traders and Artisans Association in Bauchi, Alh. Abdullahi Y. Mohammed has counseled the State and Federal Governments to do whatever possible to stop the nationwide planned hunger and economic hardships protest.

Alh. Abdullahi Y. Mohammed, while speaking with journalists on Friday, explained that the association members in Bauchi state were not in support of the protest. 

The association chairman said that their plea for a halt to the planned protest, which is in tandem with the national secretariat of the body, could nor augur well for traders and artisans.

Abdullahi, who feared that hoodlums may cash-into the protest to perpetrate atrocities leading to violence and unwanted destruction of public services and properties, want the government to dialogue with organizers of the act for amicable solutions.

“We traders and artisans are not in support of the planned protest. Let the government and organizers of the protest to sit on a table and chart the way forward against the orchestrated act”, he said.

He suggested that the only remedy for the planned national protest orchestrated by harsh economic policies of the Tinubu admonition is to effect some subsidy to the fuel pump price to allow for easy flow of goods and services.

“No sooner had President Tinubu retained the fuel pump subsidy to a certain level, prices of goods and services would automatically go down thus giving a respite or succour to the poor in getting basic necessities of life.”

Popularly known as Abdallah Caps, the traders and artisans chairman also expressed concern that Nigerians today hardly get one meal a day, saying people are being pushed to the wall.