We Can’t Encourage Nigerian Youths To Protest, They’re the Victims Of Protests, Says Ndigbo Youth President Nnabuike

The National President of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, has dissuaded Nigerian youths from participating successful the planned protests acceptable to statesman connected August 1, saying that youths are the victims of protests successful Nigeria.

Nnabuike said this successful an interrogation with ARISE NEWS connected Monday, wherever helium besides asserted that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide cannot enactment oregon propulsion for the protests due to the fact that the assemblage was not consulted.

Calling for a halt to the planned protests, Nnabuike said, “I americium calling connected my radical Ndigbo and mostly the younker nether my constituency to enactment distant from the protests. We’ve been victims of the past EndSars protests, it was thing to constitute location about. So, we can’t fold our hands and ticker the aforesaid script instrumentality spot again. The youths are the victim, and by specified looking astatine the mode and the temper and the utterances and the assemblage connection of the organisers, the faceless organisers, we cannot promote our youths, Nigerian youths, to join.

“One writer called maine yesterday and was asking me, what bash you deliberation volition beryllium the result of the protest? I said the result arsenic always- the ambiance is not conducive due to the fact that I learnt immoderate countries successful Africa, that determination were protests, and immoderate radical are trying to transcript those things that were happening possibly determination successful Kenya oregon other, to bring it present truthful that they tin unopen our federation down, they tin acceptable the state ablaze.”

The Ndigbo Youth President besides mentioned that the organisation cannot propulsion for said protests arsenic they were not consulted, emphasising, “We arsenic captious stakeholders, we cannot articulation to bash that, we can’t propulsion it due to the fact that we were not consulted. As the apex taste younker organisation successful Nigeria, we should beryllium consulted. We should beryllium down and speech and dialogue. Go to President Bola Tinubu, helium is simply a listening president. He watches, helium cares.”

Nnabuike past said that portion helium was not downplaying the rights of Nigerians to protests oregon the work of the authorities to support citizens who privation to protest, the anticipation of the protestation being hijacked is precise precocious owed to the country’s economical situation, and the information that, according to him, the protestation has nary known organisers.

He said,  “We didn’t accidental possibly that Nigerians should not protestation possibly due to the fact that the national authorities cannot support their citizens, but what we’re saying is simply a script whereby someone, astatine the outgo of protecting the protesters, you spot radical coming to onslaught the police. You spot radical coming to snatch AK47 from a worker oregon from a policeman oregon 1 of the information organisations. So what I’m saying is that immoderate youths are connected drugs, we cognize that precise rather well. And specified incidental happened during the EndSars whereby immoderate hoodlums came to onslaught the police, the constabulary had to sprout to get defence. So, what if specified happening occurs again? And again, who is coordinating?… Nobody, it’s faceless.”

He went connected to say, “There are galore hoodlums everywhere, determination is hunger. So, idiosyncratic tin adjacent onslaught the constabulary having AK47. Some of them tin travel to onslaught a worker having AK47. And successful defence of himself, helium mightiness propulsion the trigger. The adjacent happening you volition perceive is that the aforesaid happening that happened during the EndSars has happened again- they volition messiness each spot up, demolish authorities properties. During the EndSars, for 1 month, we couldn’t spell to slope successful Enugu, determination was nary ATM, determination was nary bank, obscurity to get money, everyplace was damaged, each the roads- blocked. So please, I’m begging our chap youths, due to the fact that we are the ones to beryllium used.”

“Please, I’m addressing Nigerians, please, fto each of america springiness the authorities a chance. They inherited a precise atrocious economy, they inherited a precise dormant economy,” helium said.

Ozioma Samuel-Ugwuezi

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