Back To School: Women, Children Struggle For Food, Transportation

“She told me her only backup plan is the Accounting job she is doing. Her children cannot continue unless they go to public school. This is the height of frustration and agony on Nigerians.

“The fuel hike is cruel and we condemn it. We are not accepting this economic situation because it will worsen the cost of living.

“Traders, marketers on the street, teachers, and the rest of the people who are not depending on the government for funding, will grossly be affected”.

Secretary, Small Scale Farmers in Nigeria, Chinasa Asonye, also lamented that the new fuel price will affect everything and there will be an increase in everything.

“Everything will increase when it comes to fuel and means of livelihood of Nigerians would be grossly affected.

“Is this how they want to reduce our hunger? Is this the reaction to the protest by the youths? Is this how this government wants to solve the problem of the masses? This will only aggregate hunger in the land.

“Agriculture will be affected badly and the cost of food will skyrocket. This simply means that masses’ voices are meaningless when it comes to governance in this country. Nobody is ready to listen to our groaning, this is cruel.

Atinuke Owolabi, an engineer, said, “ I do not know why the price should be N855. Even with N600, a lot of people could not take their cars out. So many families are suffering. They cannot afford to send their children to private school. So many businesses have collapsed. They cannot power their generator sets. It seems they want to crumble the economy. This is not fair. They do not even care about the masses. I do not think they know that the masses are suffering.

“In Lagos State, communities have no toilet. People are dying, the situation is causing depression, and people cannot feed again. This is not right.

“This is really affecting everybody and business. People are dying every day. People at the grassroots cannot afford three square meals again. Their children cannot go to school. The vulnerable women and their children cannot feed again”, she lamented.