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  • C’River Homeland Security DG, Calls On Citizens And Residents of the state To Embrace Dialogue Over Protest

    C’River Homeland Security DG, Calls On Citizens And Residents of the state To Embrace Dialogue Over Protest

    PRESS RELEASE

    PROPOSED NATIONWIDE PROTEST

    The Cross River State Homeland Security And Safety Agency, on the heels of the proposed Nationwide Protest by some concerned Citizens of Nigeria, hereby affirms the fundamental right of all citizens of Cross River State to engage in peaceful Protest in line with extant laws. We acknowledge that protests are essential Part of any democracy and should serve as an avenue for dialogue between the people and their leaders. It is therefore imperative that this fundamental right of citizens of Cross River to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression be accorded absolute respect and protection.

    However, having travelled this path before, with scars of the ENDSARS PROTEST still manifestly fresh in our minds, we are concerned that, despite the noble and sincere motives of the protesters, there is still a possibility for a hijack by hoodlums, miscreants and enemies of the State. In view of the aforesaid, we call on the citizens and residents of the state to embrace dialogue over Protest.

    More worrisome is the fact that the proposed Protest lacks a verifiable structural leadership, that can be held accountable in the event of a possible breakdown of Law and Order. We therefore appeal to the conscience of Citizens to be more patient with the government, specifically the #People’s First Government of His Excellency, Senator Prince Bassey Edet Otu. While we acknowledge the untold hardship occasioned by some economic policies of the government, we enjoin citizens of Cross River State to allow the state government more time to perfect the ongoing redemptive, rehabilitative and restructuring processes in the state, aimed at cushioning the effect of the economic hardship.

    Cross River State has always been known for the peace, security and hospitality it offers to its inhabitants. We must endeavor to protect this image of our beloved state, so as to continue to attract investors. We must think Cross River State First. We must think Security of Lives and Properties. Never again should we allow our land to be desolate in the name of protest. Never again should we allow strange elements and enemies of the state destroy businesses and means of livelihood in our State. The anarchy of the ENDSARS protest must not be allowed to resurface. Citizens must therefore embrace dialogue not protest.

    Signed.
    Mr. Yibala Inyang
    (Director General)

  • Nigerian Youth Set To Begin Second Phase Of #EndSARS Protest

    Nigerian Youth Set To Begin Second Phase Of #EndSARS Protest

    There is anxiety in Lagos as Nigerian Youths begin second wave of #EndSARS protest on Monday, 9 November to end police brutality and bad governance in Nigeria, the protest seems to be taking a slow move online but yet to be taking to offline in the streets of Lagos and some other states.

    The #EndSARS movement is said to be mobilizing to stage a fresh protest across the state citing “harassment” of the promoters.

    The state panel of inquiry investigating alleged brutality and abuses by the disbanded State Anti-Robbery Squadas well as the recent Lekki shootings had suspended sitting on Saturday when two youth representatives pulled out in protest against the freezing of accounts of the #EndSARS promoters by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
    The youth, it was learnt, are already mobilizing ahead of today’s protest three weeks after the state recovered from massive arsons and destruction of public assets in the previous protests.

    But the state police command has vowed to resist any fresh protest.

    The Global News Nigeria learnt that the state command had deployed its men in strategic places in Lagos to foil any protest, at Alausa in Ikeja, parts of Awolowo Road, Ikeja Under-Bridge, Ikeja Along, among others.

    The police command said it would resist any planned protest, procession or gathering under whatever guise in the metropolis, insisting that the government and residents were yet to overcome “the wounds sustained during the recent #EndSARS protests.”

    The command’s spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, said intelligence gathered from relevant bodies indicated that “some unpatriotic elements or groups of people have concluded plans to orchestrate another set of violence in the state.”

    He said a new group of protesters, under the guise of the recent #EndSARS was planning to stage another protest when the previous ones had been adjudged “as violent, dangerous and counterproductive.”

    “Premised on this, the command, therefore, wishes to warn any individual, group of students or any groups who might want to stage any form of protest, either “peaceful” or violent, or gathering whatsoever, to desist as the police and other security agencies will collectively and tactically resist any security threats or threats to public peace which might be triggered by protest or protesters in Lagos State,” Adejobi said in a statement.

    Meanwhile, the national coordinator of the Youth Rights Campaign, Adaramoye Michael and the national secretary, Francis Nwapa, charged the police “to reassure the Nigerian people and youth that SARS and police brutality is truly a thing of the past by not behaving like the defunct SARS in flagrantly disregarding citizens’ constitutional rights.”