Human Rights Lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN has asked youths to immediately suspend the ongoing hunger protest across the country.
Grassroots Parrot reports that scores of people had been killed and properties worth millions of naira vandalized and looted as the #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests entered their second day on Friday.
Adegboruwa, one of the lawyers of the Take It Back Movement, however, regretted the deaths and losses recorded during the demonstrations, saying it was not the goal of the protests.
Recall that the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) had on the eve of the protests on Wednesday urged the organizers to reduce the 10-day action to one day.
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“Though the intention of the organizers was to achieve peaceful and well-coordinated protests, it would seem that fifth columnists and some angry persons infiltrated the ranks of the protesters to derail their laudable mission.
“I appeal to the protesters to withdraw themselves from their various protest grounds and to suspend the protests immediately and indefinitely in order to give room for meaningful dialogue and engagement with the government.
“Given that the protests were said to have been hijacked by sponsored agents, it is necessary to avoid further losses and casualties.
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“The organizers of the protests and their representatives should embrace dialogue with the government,” he said in a statement obtained by Grassroots Parrot on Friday.
He expressed his “sincere condolences to the employers and families of the security personnel and also to the protesters, praying to God to comfort them and to grant them the fortitude to bear the irreparable losses.”.
Adegboruwa further called on President Bola Tinubu to “directly address the nation and then engage the protesters through their representatives.”.
He said the government should thereafter set up a committee comprising men and women of integrity to meet with the protesters to address the issues that they have raised.