Some students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka have decried the
exorbitant price of kerosene as a litre sells for N400 at filling
stations.
The students in separate interviews with newsmen in
Nsukka on Tuesday, described the situation as “unacceptable’’, saying it
had made life more unbearable for them given the already hardship in
the country caused by the economic recession.
Mr Uchenna Ngwu of
the department of Political Sociology said that life had become more
unbearable and challenging for students as they spent their feeding
money to buy kerosene at N400 per litre to cook their food.
“Students are the worst hit because they cook their food with stove that is powered with kerosene.
“Government
should urgently intervene to ensure that the price of kerosene returns
to normal before students start dying of hunger as a result of lack of
kerosene to cook with.
“Relevant government agencies should ensure
kerosene marketers who sell the product above government price and
their filling stations are sealed to serve as deterrent to others,” he
said.
Miss Chidera Chime of the Department of Health Education
urged government to put measures in place to alleviate the current
hardship in the country due to the economic recession that had doubled
the prices of goods in the market.
“Because of high cost of kerosene which I cannot afford to buy, I now resort to buying cooked food outside.
“Where I am feeling it much now is that I am being forced to take my bathe with cold water which I am not used to.
“I
am pleading with the government to do something urgent to ensure that
kerosene marketers sell the product at government official price
considering the hardship Nigerians, especially students are going
through,” she said.
Miss Peace Pius of the Department of Nursing Science said it had not been easy for her to buy kerosene at N400 per litre.
“I hardly eat outside; I like to cook for myself because if I eat outside I don’t feel satisfied.
“The two litres I bought on Monday was N800 and I feel bad while paying that money to the station attendant.
“Government
should not be allowing marketers of petroleum products in this country
to be holding Nigerians to ransom by selling at whatever prices they
like,” she said.
In some filling stations visited in Nsukka town,
only few independent and major marketers that had the product were
selling a litre of kerosene at N400
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