Inflation: Kwara Gov meets labour, transport/market unions, artisans, students’ leaders
By Rosheed Okiki
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has engaged leaders of different groups cutting across transporters, marketmen, and women, students associations, and artisans on the state of the economy and efforts to bring down the cost of living across the country by the federal government.
Governor AbdulRazaq noted that different federal government committees are working round the clock to plug the spiraling fall in the value of the naira and its impacts on consumer goods, while different measures are taken to ease the effects on the public.
He said the government is immediately working to force down the cost of key staple foods by releasing grains from the strategic reserve and distributing same to the people at intervals.
Acknowledging the spike in inflation, the Governor urged the people to be patient and that the government’s investments in gas-powered vehicles will soon manifest when the vehicles are eventually distributed in the coming months, including to the University of Ilorin campus and later to the other campuses.
Governor AbdulRazaq said the state government would soon deploy more vehicles to different parts of the state to support people’s movement, especially students who come from different homes, while grains would soon be distributed to the people as a form of support.
State Chairman for the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Comrade Joseph Tunde Meshach, NLC Chairman Comrade Saheed Olayinka, and NUT representative, in their separate remarks, commended the Governor for making the welfare of workers a priority, and for the ongoing efforts to relieve the pains from fuel subsidy removal.
Comrade Meshach also lauded the government’s decision to upgrade Kwara Hotel to a standard that it deserves, saying the facility occupies a strategic place and deserves a top-notch upgrade the government is giving it.
Other union and students’ leaders who attended the other sessions included the state Chairman for Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, Alhaji AbdulRazaq Ariwoola; and state Chairman Artisan Congress, Alhaji Jimoh Adesina; President National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), Kwara State chapter, Comrade Issa AbdulGafar and the President, National Association of Kwara State Students (NAKSS), Comrade Abdulwahab Habibullahi Are.
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