Fuel Subsidy: Youth Council Threatens Hunger Strike

The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), plans to organise a nationwide hunger strike against the proposed removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government next year.

Vice President of the body, Mr. Marvin Yorbana disclosed this at the weekend during an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt.

Yorbana who is also the Youth Representative in Africa, said that the removal of fuel subsidy was not the basis for economic growth.

He said: “Removal of fuel subsidy in the long term will work for the interest of the government, but in the short term, it will raise inflation, it will cause massive hunger, hardship and poverty in the country.”

The youth activist observed that only a select privileged youths benefit from the Federal Government’s employment programme.

According to him, there are a large number of qualified and competent youths across the country who are suffering because of unemployment and called on the government at all levels to urgently address the issue.

“Majority of Nigerian youths are not given the opportunity to participate in the skill acquisition programmes provided by government and they are not empowered in any way and  most of them come from poor family background, how are they expected to survive”, he queried.