Trade Union Congress, TUC, has called on the federal government to protect the people from those exploiting them through fuel.
Appealing to petrol marketers to stop hoarding fuel, TUC asserted that the protection of people from exploitation is in line with Section 14, subsection 2b.
In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti, the State Chairman of the TUC Comrade, Olusola Adigun, charged the marketers to consider the interest of the workers.
According to TUC, the ordinary people who need to move daily and the artisans whose daily survival is determined by the product are being exploited.
Comrade implored the task force on petroleum to justify the essence of its existence and protect the people from Shylock businessmen who are bent on making life unbearable for the people.
The TUC leader noted that workers who had to move several kilometres to work were worst hit by the unjustifiable scarcity and illegal increase in the pump price and the attendant skyrocketing prices of commodities.