Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has engaged Nigerian young people not to embark on another round of EndSARS protest...
as such activities will just worsen the economy and increase the poverty situation in the country.
Governor Bello said this in a statewide transmission on Sunday, December 6, while responding to reports that protesters are getting back to the roads in certain urban areas to exhibit against police mercilessness.
The EndSARS fights which began on October 8, took a tragic turn when hooligans captured it, completed massive looting plans, destruction of private and public properties just as murdering of certain people including security agents.
Governor Bello said another round of protest won't be just untimely yet additionally counterproductive. He spoke to Nigerian youths to solidify on the increases of the dissent by completely taking an interest in different legal boards of request set up by the different state governments.
“In the face of all this and as the first sitting governor who publicly upheld the rights of our youths to protest against police brutality, I cannot in all good conscience agree that the time is ripe for another round of #EndSARS protests,” he said.
I deem another round of #EndSARS protests to be premature and counter-productive at this time. Apart from the higher likelihood of conflict with the police earlier canvassed, we must also admit that the security situation in the country is very precarious at the moment.
All patriots must therefore make conscious efforts not to degrade a parlous security situation further. Nationwide protests at this time will only overburden the load-bearing capabilities of our security architecture increasing the likelihood of total collapse. No matter the narrative, I doubt that out-of-control anarchy is an objective of the #EndSARS protests.
To worsen matters, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) predicted 3 days ago that the pandemic could push the number of people living in extreme poverty to over 1 billion by 2030. Thank God they are owning up to my earlier prediction, warning and caution.
Nigeria’s earning and foreign exchange situation is too fragile as we speak to resist sustained shocks.
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Another nationwide protest will worsen the multidimensional poverty indices all over our country and work greater hardship on the ordinary Nigerians we claim to be advocating for.” he said
