{"id":129939,"date":"2024-09-04T21:35:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/we-buy-fuel-n1200-its-unbearable-abia-transporters-commuters-groan"},"modified":"2024-09-04T22:39:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:39:59","slug":"we-buy-fuel-n1200-its-unbearable-abia-transporters-commuters-groan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/we-buy-fuel-n1200-its-unbearable-abia-transporters-commuters-groan","title":{"rendered":"We buy fuel N1,200, it\u2019s unbearable \u2013 Abia transporters, commuters groan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Transporters and commuters in Abia have expressed serious concern over the hike in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise called petrol.<\/p>\n

NAN reports that the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited announced a new pump price from N617 per liter to N897 per liter of PMS, with effect from September 3.<\/p>\n

The development has also caused a consequential increase in transport fares and the price of goods.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the development in separate interviews with NAN on Wednesday, some transporters and prospective travellers said the situation had become \u201chighly unbearable\u201d for average Nigerians.<\/p>\n

A tricyclist in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia, Mr Enyichi Nnadede, said he would not have come out for work because of the high cost of fuel but for the lack of food for his household.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuel is very costly now. We buy N1,200 a liter and it is hard for us to make any gains at the day\u2019s toiling to feed our families.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe situation is becoming very unbearable for us. The petrol dealers are making matters worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey sold petrol at N870 per litre yesterday but today (Wednesday), they are selling at N1,200, what happened overnight?\u201d<\/p>\n

Another transporter in Umuahia, Mr Agu Chukwuma, said he bought fuel on Wednesday at N1,100 per liter.<\/p>\n

Chukwuma also said that the situation was adversely affecting his transport business, adding that he was making little or no gain.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of us doing this business do not have any other thing to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government is pushing Nigerians too far. It is high time they stopped these harsh economic policies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A commuter in Aba, Adiele Chinaza, pleaded with the government to discontinue its policies that make life unbearable for citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI commute from my base in Aba to Umuahia for work every working day.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost Abia civil servants work from their villages, but now that transport fares have gone up so much, it will be very difficult for us to meet up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe painful aspect is that whatever a civil servant earns will not be enough with the family even with N70,000 as minimum wage,\u201d Chinaza said.<\/p>\n

An Umuahia resident, Onyinyechi Ekwonye, said the hike in transport fares, arising from fuel price increase, would have an immediate and negative impact on the prices of goods and services in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know what to make of this situation; the government is hurting us; transporters and traders are hurting us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are tired of this unending economic hardship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nigeria Labour Congress should stop the hard policies of the Federal Government, it is becoming too unbearable,\u201d Ekwonye said.<\/p>\n

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