By Cletus Opukeme, Warri
The special adviser to President Ahmed Tinubu Bola on federal amnesty programme, Dr. Dennis Otuaro has admonished Nigerian youths to cancel nationwide protest, saying that the protest would aggravate the already bad economy with several untold hardship the people would face.
In a press statement on Monday formally endorsed by him, said” Peaceful demonstrations to convey felt needs are rights enshrined in our nation’s constitution, which also highlights ways and means by which such rights and dissents are disposed.
”But are protests and demonstrations necessary at the time our national ecosystem is recovering from a grievous pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the great depression?” He stated.
According to Otuaro ”I profoundly, with all sense of responsibility, do not think so. In the apparently challenging circumstances this nation finds itself as it tackles headlong the triggers left unattended to in its 25 years of democratic practices, you would agree with me, that it is only germane that the present structural reforms put in place by the federal government, together with its many cushioning interventions are just the only way to get this nation out of the wood.
”When the mandate to govern this nation was given to the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, you could recall he took it as a honor of a lifetime to serve in that capacity and immediately went to work to rebuild this county. We have as a result seen historic progress made in the area of clearing $16b about (18%) from the nations external debt, added $4b to the nations external reserves, cleared all forests backlogs owed to foreign airline operators, started the path to full local government autonomy to bring decision making closer to the people, the most essential victory of which was got at the Supreme Court, students loan to federal and state universities, and reliefs emergencies in liquidity and palliatives sent through the sub-national governments in line with the federation principles” He added.
He appealed to Niger Delta ex-agitators not to join the planned nationwide protest.noting that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is working to improve the lives of youths across the nation.
