Damilare Adenola, Director of Mobilisation for the Take It Back Movement, has reaffirmed plans to hold the #EndBadGovernance protest at Eagle Square in Abuja on August 1, despite Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike’s claims of not receiving a letter requesting use of the facility.
Adenola attributed the delay in Wike receiving the letter to bureaucratic bottlenecks and insisted that the minister would receive it by Monday.
He emphasized that the protest would proceed as scheduled, citing hunger and economic hardship as the primary motivations for the demonstration.
Adenola also responded to Wike’s description of the protest organizers as “faceless,” stating that the organizers are, in fact, hungry and unemployed Nigerians, out-of-school children, and hopeless citizens who are not scared of expressing their displeasure against government malfeasance.
Adenola said “it’s a double insult to tag the organisers of the protest as faceless”.
He said hunger is a great motivation for the protest and that the organisers of the protest need not be privileged Nigerians before they can express themselves.
“The organisers of the protest are hungry Nigerians; they are a host of unemployed Nigerians, they are a host of hopeless Nigerians who are roaming the streets. They are the out-of-school children spread across the country. These are the organisers of the protest and the greatest motivation of this #EndBadGovernance protest is hunger. People are really hungry,” he said.
“This is the idea of battered Nigerian people, this is the idea of hungry Nigerian people, this is the idea of hopeless Nigerian people.
“Young people are tired and need to express their displeasure against government’s malfeasance,” he added.
