The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has appealed to the federal government to evolve a means through which the continuous and arbitrary increase in prices of foodstuffs will come to an end.
This was contained in a statement issued on Sunday and signed by the National Clerk of the Senate, NANS National, Comrade Yekinni Adewale.
Adewale in the statement said the move was necessary in view of the daily embarrassing ratio at which Nigerians have found it difficult to feed their families due to the unstable prices of commodities in the market
He expressed surprise that prices of conventional staple foods like a bag of rice, cost the sum of over N80,000, with a bag of beans being sold at over N200,000, while traders nationwide could not offer any acceptable reason for such astronomical increase.
Adewale passionately appealed to President Tinubu not to hesitate in using the law to checkmate marketers hell bent on sabotaging the economic policies of his administration.
He also stressed that if the trend continues, it could push many to steal to feed their families even against their wishes.
The largest body of students in the nation specifically demanded that the federal government should as a matter of urgency, activate and invoke the powers of the Consumer Protection Act
The act is aimed at ensuring that traders that inflate prices of foodstuffs without any corresponding cause are brought to justice in order to serve as deterrent to others.