As part of ways to solve the ongoing economic hardship in the country, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has called for an immediate importation of food items.

President of the TUC, Festus Osifo, disclosed this during a press conference on the economic hardship ravaging the country on Monday in Abuja.

Osifo lamented that Nigerians have never witnessed this level of hardship before, even during military regimes, adding that the problems are not unconnected to the government’s poor patronage of locally made products and services and lack of capable hands at the helm of affairs.

“Nigerians must live to see tomorrow before we can understand how beautiful a government policy is. The national pride of striving to achieve food sufficiency locally should be temporarily relaxed. Governments at all levels should immediately purchase sufficient quantities of food items from around the world and share them with vulnerable Nigerians.

“Importing food abroad at this point will assist to reduce the hyper-inflation of food in the country. Federal Government should allow importation of food items for Nigerians consumption within the next two weeks, ” Osifo said.

The TUC president advised President Bola Tinubu to, as a matter of urgency, strengthen the economic management team of his administration and also look beyond party or tribal lines to headhunt the best Nigerians throughout the world who could sit down and develop homegrown solutions to the hardship menace.