The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) says retirees and vulnerable groups are always at the receiving end of the government’s insensitive policies such as fuel subsidy removal which has triggered soaring food inflation.

Addressing journalists yesterday in Abuja, National President Godwin Abumisi expressed concerns over the situation of pensioners and vulnerable groups since the inception of the P Bola Tinubu administration.

The group said: “It is obvious that the Nigerian pensioners and other vulnerable groups in Nigeria are worse hit by the subsidy removal which resulted to hyperinflation, characterised by astronomical rise in the prices of goods and services which has negatively affected every strata of our lives.

“Regrettably, the poor Nigerians and pensioners alike who are always at the receiving end of every obnoxious and insensitive policy of Federal Government were yet to recover from the last hike in PMS which gave birth to the ‘End Bad Governance’ protest across the country just a few months ago.

“And as if oblivious of the resultant consequences of the protests, the Federal Government defiantly went ahead to increase the fuel price of PMS to further impoverish, pauperise and choke the Nigerian masses in a manner capable of sending them to their early graves.”

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