Many state Governors have been unsettled by the ongoing plan by some Nigerian youths to begin a 10-day nationwide ” hunger and hardship protest” to draw the federal and state governments’ attention to the worsening plight of the citizens.
Most Governors in recent outings and in public places has made it open that some faceless Nigerian youths are calling and planning for nationwide protest to draw the attention of the president and Governors on the needs to solve the issue of hunger and untold hardship in Land.
According to media reports, the organizers of the protest have slated August 1 to August 10, 2024 to commence the mass protest throughout the country.
The Governors and other stakeholders cited the case of #ENDSARS protest that took place few years ago which was characterized with loss of life and property. They plead with the organizers to shelve the plan protest and that the Government of President Bola Tinubu is already addressing the issue of hunger and economic hardship in the country.
The rally organisers say “this hunger is too much.”
The security agencies has come out to say they are aware of the plan rally protest on Thursday when it said the “identities of many of the sponsors behind the protest are known, along with their collaborators who are safely residing abroad, and the government is taking necessary actions to stop their subversive plans.”
Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu,The director-general of the National Orientation Agency (NOA, in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja, said the agency’s nationwide structure had identified the sponsors of the proposed protest and likely flash points.
The Agency Director,said the government will take measures to forestall any violent occurrences in the identified locations.
He stated that the intentions of those behind the planned protest were not about governance or the state of the economy but a ploy to destabilize the peace in the country, cause mayhem, and carry out arson, killings, and maiming of innocent citizens for narrow political reasons.
