Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has said youths organising the #EndBadGovernance protest in the country are unknown.
Akpabio said this in Abuja on Wednesday at the State House, while reacting to the planned nationwide protest against hunger slated for August 1-10.
He said Nigerian youths have the constitutional right to protest but warned against violence.
“I want to use this opportunity to call on those who are attempting to foment trouble; that you have a right to protest. It is your fundamental right. It is there in the constitution”, Akpabio said.
“But you don’t have a right to destabilise the country. The right to protest should not be turned into the right to unleash violence. It’s very clear that people who are behind this are very amorphous, very faceless”.
The former Akwa Ibom State governor said the country had been facing the current economic challenges before President Bola Tinubu assumed office last year.
“It is the outcome of years of insecurity. Many people could not go to farms for almost 10 years and know that, and the president has risen to the occasion,” the senate president said.
“Every food item that is coming in now will come in without any restriction; bring in food because Nigerians need to eat. And then, at the same time, most things are coming in with a lot of waivers.
“So, for me, I’m excited that yes, indeed, the government is doing what it should. And we, the leaders in the National Assembly, are touching our various constituencies.”
