Protests continued in Lagos as demonstrators gathered for the fifth day despite President Bola Tinubu’s Nationwide Broadcast on Sunday, urging them to suspend the EndBadGovernance protests.
The protesters insist that the president’s speech did not address their concerns, report however says that security personnel have continued to maintain law and order in the State.
The protesters were undeterred, they gathered in their numbers at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos State.
They say the President’s speech on Sunday failed to address their demands for better governance, improved living conditions, and an end to corruption.”
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayoade Adegoke, arrived at the scene but declined to speak to journalists, citing concerns about being misquoted.
Addressing Journalists at the Protest ground, The Protesters made several demands, including ,A review of the 70,000 Naira new minimum wage; A reversal of the hike in Electricity tariff; The sack of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun over the killings and attacks on protesters and journalists in some states, including the FCT.
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Amos Olajide was one of the protesters arrested at the Gani Fawehinmi Park following the President’s Nationwide Broadcast in which he called for the suspension of the protest to avert further bloodshed.
Olajide and 12 others arrested earlier have however been released after the intervention of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayoade Adegoke, a move commended by counsels to the protesters.
Police authorities also took journalists on a surveillance tour, Stressing that they will continue to maintain law and order while the Protest lasts.
The number of protesters at the Gani Fawehinmi arena on the first working day of the week speaks volume about the number of unemployed youths and those frustrated even with their employment because they can no longer cope with the Skyrocketing prices of goods and services.
They have vowed not to back down until their demands are met.
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
