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#EndBadGovernanceProtest: Oby Ezekwesili Charges Nigerian Govt To Stop Spreading Fear

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#EndBadGovernanceProtest: Oby Ezekwesili Charges Nigerian Govt To Stop Spreading Fear

The former Vice-President of the World Bank (Africa Region) and founder of #FixPolitics Initiative, a research-based citizen-led initiative, Oby Ezekwesili, has charged the Nigerian government against spreading fear ahead of the #EndBadGovernance protest starting August 1, 2024.

Ezekwesili disclosed on her official X handle on Wednesday that the August 1 protest is not just a way but the most crucial way of expressing grievances over mass hunger in the country.

This unrelenting media propaganda all over the country by the Nigerian government and their supporters is just because their badly governed and suffering citizens finally got distressed and discomfited enough to collectively raise their voices and ask them to please #EndBadGovernance,” she wrote on X.

Posting on X, the Ezekwesili declared her support for the protests and its organisers.

“I laud and stand with the Nigerian Citizens for the resilience shown in a season of severest economic hardship,” she added, highlighting the courage and determination of the protesters.

In a subsequent post, Ezekwesili noted that “the only group that will turn the #EndBadGovernaceProtest into the ‘bloody affair’ that Nigerian government propagandists are predicting and prophesying is the government and its supporters.

She urged the federal and state governments and national and state assemblies to make this nationwide expression of dissatisfaction and disapproval of Nigerians an opportunity for “deep introspection.”

Consider your ways. Produce convincing evidence-backed responses and plans of action to citizens’ demands,” she added.

In addition, Ezekwesili charged the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) and the Nigerian Armed Forces with doing everything right by the people and steering clear of human rights abuses as protesters exercised their rights peacefully.

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Mayowa Durosinmi

M. Durosinmi is a West Africa Weekly investigative reporter covering Politics, Human Rights, Health, and Security in West Africa and the Sahel Region

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