The Arewa Youth Ambassadors have reiterated their commitment to the August 1, 2024 protest against the escalating economic hardship and denied reports that the group has cancelled the planned protest.The group’s National Coordinator, Yahaya M. Abdullahi stated this in a statement on Sunday, saying there was no going back on the protest....READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
The group equally highlighted several pressing issues driving their protest, including rising insecurity, persistent food and fuel crises, soaring unemployment rates, and the overall high cost of living.
It also criticized the administration of President Bola Tinubu, accusing it of neglecting the suffering of the Nigerian populace.
The group said: “If the President Tinubu-led government is for Nigerians as a whole, why on earth the false pretences? It’s so sad and pathetic that suffering have become unspeakable and pervasive, while the power that is keeps on looking the other way.”
According to the Tribune, the group also stressed the necessity of the protest unless the government reversed its alleged unfavourable policies.
The statement partly reads: “Let’s be categorical, there is no going back on our words, as the protest is scheduled for 1st August 2024. Everywhere in the world, people make government, not the other way round. But why should the government brought about by the people in Nigeria be only for those in the corridors of its power?
“We wish to make it clear that the protest becomes necessary considering the insecurity that spirals upward coupled with incessant food and fuel crisis, unemployment and high cost of living bedevilling our region in particular and the country in general.
“Is Nigeria not even on the brink of revolution? Perhaps if anything has failed to strike a cord for its outbreak, President Tinubu’s starvation scheme surely will. Because Nigerians would rather be killed on the streets by the security forces being paid through their taxes than be laid to death by hunger in their homes, and maybe on or in their beds. And, you know, hunger knows no bounds.
“Therefore, as a group of peaceful citizens, we are left with no option than to protest the anti-masses tendencies that President Tinubu-led government continues to introduce on daily basis….READ FULL ARTICLE
