21 October 2020
Nigerians resident and indigenous to Cross River state have been advised to give President Muhammadu Buhari the benefit of the doubt in respect of implementing the demands of the ongoing #EndSARS protest NEGROIDHAVEN has garnered.
The admonition was given Tuesday in Calabar the state capital city to a teeming population of Nigerians comprising youth and adults during a peaceful walk organised by the South-South Legacy Group.
According to the spokesperson of the group, Comr. Iso Edim, the basic message of the #EndSARS protest has been acknowledged by the federal government. Edim who acknowledged that the agitation of #EndSARS was not to effect a name change from SARS to SWAT suggested that the protesters should give the government the opportunity to effect the demands of the ongoing civil campaign.
Iso who admitted that the issues raised by the #EndSARS campaign was legitimate, pleaded that ‘the protesters of #EndSARS should please ceasefire for now, let us give the government benefit of the doubt.
‘We are begging as South South Legacy Group that you should give the government some time to do what they have promised to do. This is an appeal. As your representative, we want to assure you that we will follow the government to the latter’.
Continuing, Edim cited the instance where the #EndSARS protest has been infiltrated and compromised by faceless hoodlums who have resorted to violence as part of the #EndSARS campaign. Edim therefore argued that given this unfortunate turn of events, the said agitation should be terminated.
Edim assured the public that should the federal government fail to implement the demands of the agitations, the protesters may return to the street.
Our correspondent cited placards reading ‘The youth have proven a point, we need to proceed to a round-table’, ‘We shouldn’t allow our agitations to be infiltrated’, ‘youth say no to violent protest’, ‘let’s nominate those to represent us in the government panel’.
