BREAKING: Northern Elders, Stakeholders Lay Seven Demands Before Tinubu, Back #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria Protest

The elders and the stakeholders who made their whisper know in an announcement signed by Prof. Usman Yusuf; ⁠Hajia Najatu Muhammad; ⁠⁠Mallam Salihu Lukman; and ⁠Dr. Umar Ardo, also made seven demands to the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government.

Some elders and stakeholders in Northern Nigeria hold announced their paunchy strengthen for the planned nationwide hunger roar tagged #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria scheduled to back from August 1 to 10.

The elders and the stakeholders who made their whisper know in an announcement signed by Prof. Usman Yusuf; ⁠Hajia Najatu Muhammad; ⁠⁠Mallam Salihu Lukman; and ⁠Dr. Umar Ardo, also made seven demands to the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government.

Within the assertion got by SaharaReporters on Wednesday, the Northern elders and stakeholders said that Nigeria had long been going thru unheard of challenges of insecurity, excruciating poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, ailments, high price of living, all on fable of corrupt governance and corruption in public workplaces. 

They said, “We acknowledge that the main cause of any government is to stable life and property, and beef up the welfare of its electorate. 

“Any regime that cannot guarantee these classic rights loses all accurate and factual authority of being in strength, and would naturally incur the wrath of electorate. It can therefore entirely remain in office extra by default than by public consent.

“This looks to be the whisper our pricey nation, Nigeria, is drifting towards. Over the years, successive governments the least bit levels, including the incumbent ones, fell in need of delivering the requisite leadership. 

“Consequently, Nigerians hold been thrown staunch into a whisper of social dislocation that has plunged electorate, especially the youths, into disillusionment, disappointment, frustration and hopelessness. 

“To press house their legit demands pertaining to the worth of living disaster, insecurity and the worrisome waft in the ship of whisper, Nigerian youths hold resolved to transfer on a 10 day nationwide roar from the 1st to Tenth August, 2024. 

“We therefore wrote this special text to whisper our whisper pertaining to this unravel to roar and the attitude of the government to it.

“First, we desire to disclose the  constitutionally stable staunch of all electorate to assemble and to roar. We also acknowledge that the cause for roar against the map is right and justifiable. 

“We desire to whisper clearly that we firmly stand by our youths in their unravel to exercise their staunch to roar.

“2nd, we call on the federal government to be pragmatic in its skill to the choice of the disaster if it hopes to amicably unravel  and mitigate the dangers connected to mass protests.” 

They said “To this discontinue we counsel that the government at as soon as takes the next steps: Have interaction in dialogue: 

“Name and at as soon as have interaction with the formative years leaders and protesters to esteem and take care of their grievances. 

“Outsourcing this accountability to others, corresponding to worn, non secular, labour, civil society leaders is now not going to work. 

“Utilizing whisper forces to intimidate, cajole and harass protesters can entirely extra escalate an already unstable predicament. 

“We hold now at this time considered that in the EndSARS protests. Engagement remains the entirely and entirely solution. 

“Put in pressure reforms: Sincerely take care of the demands of the protesters by enforcing indispensable reforms, demonstrating goodwill and a dedication to alternate;

“Toughen formative years empowerment: Invest in formative years fashion programs, education, innovation, entrepreneurship initiatives.

“Give a enhance to financial fashion: Put in pressure policies that can perhaps perhaps beef up classic financial fashion of the nation;

“Strengthen governance: Give a enhance to transparency, accountability, and inclusivity in governance against personalised leadership, tackling corruption and guaranteeing equal opportunities for all electorate.

“Have certain safety: Have certain that the whisper safety forces admire the rights of protesters by permitting them access for unexcited meeting without interference, intimidation or harassment and defend them against any damage; 

“Lead by instance: The federal government and its leadership ought to handbook by instance, demonstrating sacrifice, integrity, accountability and transparency so as to inspire belief and self belief. 

“Having been in the trenches himself main a complete lot of protests, from the NADECO days to 2014, President Tinubu knows better than others the worth of roar. 

“To the protesting youths, we desire to grunt you that we realize and strengthen your decision to exercise your constitutional staunch to unexcited protests in annoying factual governance and accountability from your leaders. 

“We instruct that here is a legit and indispensable step towards reclaiming your future and guaranteeing a better Nigeria for us all.

“As elders, whereas we stand shoulder to shoulder with you on this, we urge you to dwell unexcited and legislation-abiding throughout these protests, conserving off any actions that can perhaps perhaps presumably be misconstrued as violent, atrocious, harmful, offensive or threatening to public peace. 

“We also call on you to have interaction in dialogue if the government extends a hand of fellowship to you in addressing the root causes of your discontent and grievances.”

They confused out that by taking these measures, the government can take care of the underlying points driving the protests, minimize tensions, produce a extra stable and prosperous future and hold a ways from disruption and chaos. 

“We call on our leaders and governments the least bit levels to be responsive and veil dedication and admire for the freedom of all electorate to specific themselves freely with none provocation as offered for in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution as amended. 

“We instruct that collectively we are in a position to kind a Nigeria that works for all its electorate, no matter age, ethnicity, or socio-financial popularity.”