Take-It-Back Movement (TIB), a human rights and pro-democracy organization, has criticized the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government over the distribution of “few cups of Garri” in Lagos State as a temporary solution for the elimination of the petrol subsidy.
The TIB group, which uploaded a picture of the food packaging with the phrase “Badagry West LCDA, Fuel Subsidy, Palliative Initiative Package,” corroborated this and said that the supposed palliative would not alleviate the socio-economic problems Nigerians have been experiencing recently.
“Distributing few cups of garri as subsidy palliatives to Nigerians is not only unfortunate, it is a direct insult on the sensibilities of the Nigerian people.
“How do few cups of garri address the problem of increased cost of transportation? How does it tackle the challenge of unaffordable cost of food? How does this mitigate the issue of increasing poverty, and unprecedented hardship occasioned by subsidy removal? President @officialABAT is treating Nigerians like a conquered people. It’s only a matter of time before he provokes them to the streets”, TIB wrote on Twitter.
