Protest: Give govt time to correct wrongs, UN chief tells youths

COUNTRY President of the United Nations Positive Livelihood Award Centre (UNITED NATIONS-POLAC), Prof Mercy Olufunmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has called on the organisers of planned nationwide protests, dubbed “End Bad Governance in Nigeria, to give the Government more time to “right the wrongs.”

She noted the demands of the protesters which included that the government should bring down the price of fuel, give proper wages, offer free education, fix the roads, provide electricity, end insecurity, declare a state of emergency on inflation and disclose lawmakers’ pay, among several demands.

However, she appealed for patience by Nigerians for the government to address the challenges of the country..
In a statement on Tuesday, she also pleaded with the youths, as well as, all well meaning Nigerians and supporters of the protest to please halt the protest scheduled for tomorrow, 1st August 2024.

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Adesanya-Davies said, “Judging from the recent developments on the policy of the federal government towards reviewing many policies of the government and introducing new measures aimed at improving Nigeria economy for good, UN-Polac believes, that the federal government will try to deliver the dividend of democracy to Nigerians, if given more time.”

She, in the same vein, called on the Federal government, to look into the hardship occasioned by the subsidy removal and plight of the suffering masses in the country to avoid completely any form of protest in our nation both now and in future.

“I have just read the New headline today 30th July, 2024 that, “The Federal Government has suspended import duties and taxes on essential food items.”

The ex-Presidential candidate of the Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA), has earlier on urged Nigerians to create a conducive environment where everyone could access their rights and protections as enshrined in the Constitution and harness the power of Language and Linguistics; while delivering the 57th Inaugural Lecture of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria last week, on Tuesday 25th, 2024.

Adesanya-Davies, who had while mourning during the ‘END SARS PROTEST’ written several books on the protest, pleaded with the youths not to engage in any protest which could take the form and destruction of ‘END SARS protest.’

She said: ‘Not again. Please we do not want lives wasted and properties destroyed again like during the “END SARS protest.”