Aisha Yesufu, a human rights activist, has criticized Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu.
She frowned at Tinubu’s decision to shut down warehouses.
She lamented the country’s continuous poverty and hunger, claiming Tinubu intends to use hunger to murder Nigerians.
Yesufu claimed that the president wants people to be willing to sell their souls for a package of noodles.
She made the accusation in a post on her X account on Friday.
Remember that Nigeria’s inflation rate jumped to 29.90 percent in January 2024, up from 28.92 percent in December 2023, due to rising food costs.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which announced this on Thursday, stated that the result is 0.98 percentage points higher than the 28.92 percent reported in December 2023.
However, the president announced steps on Monday to address the root causes of the food crisis.
Barely 24 hours later, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, or FCCPC, closed Sahad Store, a famous grocery in Abuja’s Garki district.
The Commission stated that a preliminary inquiry indicated that the supermarket’s management was shortchanging consumers.
However, Yesufu has come out to question the onslaught on traders and the closing of warehouses.
“Tinubu wants to use hunger to kill Nigerians. He wants people to reach the stage where they will sell their souls for a packet of noodles. How do you explain the attack on traders and sealing of warehouses?”
In other news, Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in 2019 and 2023, has reaffirmed his call for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader who is currently jailed.
Sowore made the call during an interview with Arise Television on Thursday.
The #RevolutionNow activist argued that there would be no peace or progress in Nigeria without justice.
“Let me use this opportunity to ask for the release of Nnamdi Kanu. It’s time that reasoning prevail over the issue of Nnamdi Kanu. This whole thing was unnecessary.
“If you’re not going to continue with Buhari’s policies of ruining the economy, destroying the dollars, don’t continue with his repressive policies.
“It’s time to apologize to all the persons that Buhari touched in the last eight years of his administration and prosecute all the officials used in committing atrocities under his government.” He said
Kanu has been in jail since June 2021, when the dictatorship of former President Muhammadu Buhari, in concert with the Kenyan government, abducted him in Kenya and returned him to Nigeria in contravention of national and international laws.
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