NBA Protests In Lagos …Urges FG To Revert To N65 Pump Price

Members of the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday took to the streets of Lagos to protest the removal of subsidy on petrol by the Federal Government.

The lawyers, who marched from the Ikeja High Court premises to the Lagos State Government House, Alausa, Ikeja, urged the government to reverse the price of petrol to N65 per litre.

Our correspondent reports that the NBA members, led by their branch chairman, Mr Adebamigbe Omole, carried placards with various inscriptions denouncing the increment.

Some of the placards read: “Lawyers say no to fuel subsidy removal”; and “This increment will kill us all”.

Our correspondent reports that both Gov. Babatunde Fashola and the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, refused to address the protesters who waited for hours at the Alausa gate.

Omole said: “In the last decade, prices of fuel have been increased more than eight times, yet there has been no improvement on the condition of living of our people.

“There is no evidence on ground to show that the latest increase will be any different”.

Omole advised the government to focus on eradicating corruption in the petroleum sector, rather than asking Nigerians who were already living below the poverty line to pay more.