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Subsidy removal: FCT residents urge FG to provide buses, rail transportation
Some FCT residents on Sunday appealed to the Federal Government to provide buses and rail transportation in Abuja to ease the high cost of transportation for workers.
The residents, in an interviews said the removal of fuel subsidy had led to an increase in the prices of goods and services.
They, however, said this had brought untold hardship to Nigerians.
Mr Sunday Amos, a civil servant, said he found it difficult to go to work since the increase of fuel from N537 to N617.
“I have been forced to drop my car due to the high cost of fuel.
“Before the removal of fuel subsidy, I used to fill my tank confidently with 10,000. When fuel was increased from N190 to N537, it costed me N35,000 to fill my tank.
”Now that the fuel had increased again to N617, I am not sure I will fill the tank again till further notice.
“A lot of public car users have dropped their cars because the passengers they carry cannot make them to break even with the current market price,” he said.
According to Ngozi Eze, a civil servant and a business woman said that she had resorted to trekking to cut down the high transport fare.
” I trek even under the sun and rain to reduce transport fare because if I remove the transport fare from my salary, I will be left with nothing,” she said.
Mrs Joy Imuzeze, a resident of Dutse, said that it was now difficult for her to go to work because of the increase in transport fares without a commensurate increase in salary.
“Many workers are voluntarily resigning from their job because if they remove the transport fare from their salaries, they will have nothing to hold on to,” Imuzeze said.
Mr Emmanuel Odey, a public servant, said that there had been a behavioural adjustment in the company where he works, adding,” because the situation is telling on everybody including the employers.
”This situation may increase the already high rate of unemployment because employers are laying off staffers.
”If the government provides buses that can convey a lot of people from various areas of Abuja into the city centres, I think the situation will be better,” he said.
A Student Of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State, has died after being hit by a trailer driver on Monday, April 15.
The Accident was said to have occurred when the driver, who was reportedly driving against traffic, collided with the motorcycle conveying a student named Olanrewaju Olatona and another passenger along the Ikirun-Osogbo road area of the state.
Due to the severe impact, Olanrewaju Olatona, a National Diploma 2 student, suffered fatal injuries. He died at the scene.
Olatona, who was the Financial Secretary of the Department of Mass Communication, was preparing for the one-year Industrial Training programme.
The driver fled the scene after the accident and has not been apprehended.
Subsequently, Osun State Polytechnic students organised a procession in front of the school gate and blocked the expressway for several hours.
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped Joshua Rogers, the ChannelsTV reporter in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Politics Nigeria learnt that Rogers was picked up close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt and to an unknown destination by the gunmen around 9pm on Thursday, April 11.
The reporter was driving his official ChannelsTV branded car when the hoodlums accosted, pointed a gun at him and took him away in the same vehicle.
Rogers was said to be returning from his official assignment in Government House after a trip to Andoni for a government event when the incident happened.
Already, the gunmen were said to have contacted his wife and demanded a N30million ransom for bis release.
His cameraman confirmed the incident and appealed to his abductors to set him free unconditionally.
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