The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has advised President Bola Tinubu to start importing food items to reduce its cost.

This is even as Nigerians have continued to protest the current economic hardship and high cost of living under the Tinubu administration.

Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, TUC President, Festus Osifo, expressed concerns over the widespread hardship across the country.

According to him, Nigerians have never witnessed this level of hardship before even during military regimes.

Usifo noted 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,” Usifo said.

“Governments at all levels should immediately purchase sufficient quantities of food items from different parts of 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. FG should allow importation of food items for Nigerians consumption within the next two weeks,” he added.

Osifo advised President Tinubu to immediately  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.