As the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest enters the second day, human rights lawyer and solicitor to the organisers of the protest, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has called for its immediate and indefinite suspension.
Adegboruwa who made the appeal in a statement he issued on Friday, noted that the suspension becomes necessary due to the fact that the protest had been hijacked by hoodlums.
He said, “I appeal to the protesters to withdraw themselves from their various protest grounds and to suspend the protests immediately and indefinitely, to give room for meaningful dialogue and engagement with the government.
“Given that the protests were said to have been hijacked by sponsored agents, it is necessary to avoid further losses and casualties.
“The organisers of the protests and their representatives should embrace dialogue with the government.”
Adegboruwa commended the citizens for coming out in their numbers to express their displeasure over the hardship in the country, pointing out that no leader should ever take the citizens for granted again.
“No leader should ever take the people for granted. In the peculiar circumstance of the hunger and hardship being experienced by our people across the land, the protests were more than justified.
“Notice of this protest was given many weeks ago, yet nothing was done to engage the organisers of the protests to address the issues raised in their charter of demands. It is the same way that the government ignores several strike notices issued by the Labour unions until they eventually snowball into strike actions. This should not be so.
“I, therefore, call upon President Bola Tinubu to directly address the nation and then engage the protesters through their representatives. Thereafter, the government should set up a committee comprising men and women of integrity to meet with the protesters to address the issues that they have raised,” Adegboruwa concluded.
