Kachikwu lacks capacity, must resign, TMG insists

The momentum may have started building for a faceoff with the Federal Government over the recent increase in the pump price of petrol, as the Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, Friday, called on Nigerians to resist in totality the hike.

The group described the hike as insensitive to the plights of the masses.

TMG, made up of over 400 civil organisations, therefore called for the resignation of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, insisting that he lacked capacity to manage the sector.

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TMG’s chairman, Comrade Ibrahim Zikirullahi, in a statement in Abuja, said: “TMG stoutly rejects the N145 pump price of petrol imposed by Federal Government. To say the least, this imposition portrays the government as insensitive, and out of touch with the daily unbearable plight of the ordinary Nigerian.

“Coming at a time when the implementation of the recently signed 2016 Budget is yet to take off, the hike in the face of groaning and pains, is ill-timed and badly advised.

“It is tantamount to killing a willing horse to ask the Nigerian people, who are already carrying the heavy burden of the failure of governance over the years, to take on one more load of extreme economic hardship, as represented by the imposed price of petrol.”

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