A gaggle, Door-to-Door Youth and Ladies Initiative for Good Governance, in collaboration with some civil society organisations (CSOs), has warned towards financial setbacks of public protests.
At a press convention yesterday on the deliberate protests by some teams towards the nation’s present hardships, the group appealed to the planners to channel their vitality in direction of constructive engagement and dialogue.
The initiative’s members on the press convention had been the Centre for Democratic Liberty, Patriotic Residents Discussion board, Ladies in Politics and Governance, Northern Progressives Younger Ladies Discussion board, and Matasan Siyasar Arewa.
The nationwide convener, Hajia Khadija Yusuf, pressured the significance of channelling their power and knowledge in direction of dialogue, collaboration, and constructive engagement relatively than succumbing to sensationalised and politically motivated requires protest.
“Whereas protest stays a basic proper of each citizen as enshrined in our structure, it’s evident that past real complaints, these latest calls to protest have been extremely sensationalised and carry obvious political undertones,“ Khadija Yusuf said.
“We have to be conscious that a number of the voices pushing for these protests are those that have misplaced within the political enviornment and are determined to plunge our nation into disaster for his or her achieve.“
The convention highlighted the real considerations of the youth, acknowledging the present actuality and degree of starvation within the land that impacts all social and financial strata. Hajia Khadija Yusuf, nevertheless, identified that the narrative in media areas, particularly on social media, has been manipulated to incite unrest and anarchy.
On the aftermath of earlier protests, Mr Kunle Ajayi of the Centre for Democratic Literacy mentioned, „The aftermath of the EndSARS protests, as an illustration, left Lagos in vital disarray. The financial price was immense, estimated at over $1.5 billion; many small companies had been destroyed, and public infrastructure considerably suffered.
Â