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The United Nations (UN) department of safety and security has warned that the planned protests in Nigeria may be hijacked by groups with ulterior motives.

Recent reports indicate that various Nigerian groups are planning a nationwide protest from August 1 to 10, dubbed “10 days of rage,” to address the country’s soaring cost of living and economic hardship.

In a threat and risk assessment finding dated July 19, the UN expressed concerns about the possibility of violence, citing past instances where similar protests in Nigeria escalated.

“Recall that in the 13–16 February 2023 interval, tensions generated by the paucity of new Naira currency (financial crisis) reached high levels amongst the civilian population, which materialized in violent protests in the South-East and South-South regions of Nigeria, in the states of Akwa Ibom, Delta, Edo, Imo, Kwara, Lagos, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, and Rivers,” the threat and risk assessment reads.

“During the civil unrest in the different states, several bank branches and ATM points were vandalized, and major roads were blocked.

“As the turnout for the ’10 days of rage’ protest is expected to be high, large-scale disruptions to normal economic and social activities cannot be discounted.”

The threat assessment also showed that confrontations between groups ing the government and those disagreeing with its policies cannot be ruled out from the end of July towards August 10-15.

“While acknowledging the economic hardship in the country, some organizations and leaders of ethnic groups (especially in South-South and South-East) were discouraging participation in any of the 1-10 August protests (E.g. Ọhanaeze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural organization in Nigeria, claiming to represent the interests of all Igbos),” the UN said.

“This highlights the possibility of the events being hijacked by other interest groups/detractors, thus complicating the security landscape of different areas.”

Those calling for the protests are asking for a reverse of some policies implemented by President Bola Tinubu believed to have engendered hardship in the country.

Some of the demands include the reinstatement of petrol and tertiary education subsidies, restoring affordable electricity tariffs, and reducing import duties to previous values established before the economic crisis.

Others are declaring a state of emergency on inflation, more transparency in public istration, publicly disclosing and reducing the salaries and allowances of political office holders, and reforms to the judicial system.

In a statement addressed to Tinubu, Joe Ajaero, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), said it would be hard to prevent Nigerians from expressing dissatisfaction with the government’s policies.

https://www.thecable.ng/planned-protests-against-economic-hardship-in-nigeria-likely-to-be-hijacked-un-warns/amp/

Thank you UN, but these guys have ear problems.

We have been warning them o, they wont hear till they employ some jobless park touts to burn their old houses then turn around and look for who to pin it on.

Go and protest in your home states of Osun, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states. We will check ID cards, if you're not from Lagos, we won't allow you the protests. Just as many people were not allowed to vote in Lagos, they should not also protests.

For the Ss and Se, you know that you have no dog in this fight, don't go and dance to a music you don't know who is beating the drums. Hardship dey, but dont enter prison because of a planned protest that has been placed as a trap for you.

Whether they hijack or ransack am, nothing concern me...

But wetin dey give me joy na the fact that hunger and hardship knows no tribe.........

And the good thing na be say the population of Nigeria for 2023 go must reduce drastically before 2027 cuz this wind of hardship wey dey blow right now no dey leave anybody nyash unclosed..

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UN or whatever you called yourself, go and tell your PAY MASTERS and those that BANK-ROLLED you to spew this trash that there's NO GOING BACK on the protest. They have now till 31 July to stop the hardship and hunger pandemic in the land.!!
#EndBadGovernment
#EndCorruption

Tsarbomba:
UN or whatever you called yourself, go and tell your PAY MASTERS that those that BANK-ROLLED you to spew this trash that there's NO GOING BACK on the protest. They have now till 31 July to stop the hardship and hunger pandemic in the land.!!
#EndBadGovernment
#EndCorruption

They should manufacture the report from WHO, UNICEF about the protest.

We dey wait😂

Hehehe! Tinubu that hired Agbadorian bishops abi nah another Tinubu? Meanwhile, how has the UN influence the policies of this disastrous government to benefit the downtrodden masses?

Are they aware Tinubu took his children to their solemn UNGA in NY while million of the citizens of this failed nation can eat or survive? Meanwhile here is Tinubu protesting in 2012. Did heaven fell down?

Bring down the price of fuel and foodstuffs, then the protests will die a natural death.

Keep on starving Nigerians and be pleading for patience while you’re feeding fat ehn…

Keep on bribing the sell outs that call themselves coalition groups and media influencers. Everybody will cash out on your head until your eventual downfall.

Don’t listen to the truth o, keep on listening to the sycophants.

We know those that will hijack it. They are APC ers that were calling for a civil war.

The protests will likely escalate out of control. Reason being that there is widespread hunger in the land. And we all know that a hungry man is an angry man.

But then protest is fundamental right of a citizen.
So the option left for Tinubu is to urgently address the issue of hunger & hardship in the land.

Hungry Nigerians want to see immediate results of his actions not audio promises.

APC ers are planning to pack agberos from oshodi and ojuelegba under bridge into BRT buses and black lexus jeeps to go and drop at strategic points to instigate violence on that protest day after which they will then turn around to lay blames on igbos and Obidients

We know their game plan and will checkmate them when that time comes

If any peaceful protester is killed,
the demand will be escalated to the impossible!

This is not 2020

PresidObi:
Thank you UN, but these guys have ear problems.

We have been warning them o, they wont hear till they employ some jobless park touts to burn their old houses then turn around and look for who to pin it on.

Go and protest in your home states of Osun, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states. We will check ID cards, if you're not from Lagos, we won't allow you the protests. Just as many people were not allowed to vote in Lagos, they should not also protests.

For the Ss and Se, you know that you have no dog in this fight, don't go and dance to a music you don't know who is beating the drums. Hardship dey, but dont enter prison because of a planned protest that has been placed as a trap for you.

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There’s always an inherent risk associated with protests, but government shouldn’t use this an excuse to deny people their democratic rights to peaceful protests

In the US, UK and other developed countries, bad actors sometimes try to use peaceful protests as cover to loot businesses or cause trouble.

It is the job of the security agencies to be on the watch, gather intelligence, and protect lives and property

The same way government deploys security officials for elections, it should do to secure businesses

This is the implication of protests alert by the organizers.

I'm not sure Kenyans give their govt heads-up prior to their grievance against the ruler.

Nigeria govt will use all means possible just to tone down the gains of the civil rights so as to achieve nothing and that's because u allowed them to build up against it

Tinubu hijacked the economy and can’t do anything inflation. Worse person to lead Nigeria

Tilimpoo on the beat

The government should reverse its policy thats not working

DMerciful:
If any peaceful protester is killed,
the demand will be escalated to the impossible!

This is not 2020

Peaceful protests? When you cannot even have peaceful elections?

It will never be peaceful.

So is now that the UN suddenly cares about Nigeria

Which UN de talk why can't UN speak against the hardship all this while or is it not sane terrorist ing IUN (TERRORISTS SU)

when police or soldiers shoot or when counter paid thugs attack genuine protesters ni

warehouses may be looted sha

Like the 2012 APC protest?

The protest that will change Nigeria is not this is one. That one won't be planned for, everybody go just fall out and everywhere go scatter .