#EndBadGovernance Protest : Learning from the Past to Ensure a Constructive Future for Protests | #NwokeukwuMascot

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Protest: Let the Past Guide Us by John Okiyi Kalu | #NwokeukwuMascot

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Abia State is yet to fully recover from the EndSARS protest of 2020. If you must protest, please, do not destroy state infrastructure or engage in violent acts. There is something called peaceful protest, and that’s the only thing the law guarantees to all.


We should not cut our noses to spite of our faces again. 


It is also important to admonish security agents to resist the temptation of using live bullets or employ strong arm tactics to break up protests across the nation. The objective in managing any protest on the 1st of August should be ZERO loss of life and properties. If that is achieved, it means our democracy has matured and is much more resilient. 


Federal and state governments should stop running palliative-based interventions to issues of hunger. It has never worked in this country. Instead, there are grounds that can be conceded to the agitators, including a reduction in the price of petrol, kerosene, and electricity as a short-term measure to keep more money in the hands of families. 


Rather than sending 20 trucks of rice to each state, it is better to procure and distribute 20 buses to each state and consciously improve rail transportation to cover more cities. 


Crucially, refocus cash transfer schemes to ensure that our students in tertiary institutions get a minimum of N100,000 per month for at least 6 months in addition to the student loan scheme recently launched by President Tinubu.


Concurrently, all states should be mandated to immediately implement the new minimum wage of N70,000 to make workers happy. 

Once more, I plead with Abia and Nigerian youths to, please, preserve what we already have while asking for more. Nobody will blame you for protesting, especially if peaceful, but if you must, kindly make it peaceful at all cost. 



Nobody should convince anyone to burn down the mother’s kitchen in anger. Udo ka nma!!!


- John Billion

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