The Country President of the United Nations (UN) Positive Livelihood Award Centre (UN-POLAC), Prof Mercy Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has said that goods and properties worth approximately N6 billion have been lost as a result of the ongoing protests in some states in Nigeria dubbed #EndBadGovernance.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Adesanya-Davies pleaded with the protesters and security agencies to ensure that there are no more deaths, molestations and destruction of properties.

She also called on the organisers of the national protest dubbed “End Bad Governance” and “End Hunger Now” in Nigeria to please give the government more time to correct the wrongs, as the ongoing protests over hardship faced by the nation run into Day Three.

She said: “There should be no more killings, no more molestations and no more destruction of properties!” God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Adesanya lamented reports of killings and wanton destruction of properties during the demonstrations.

Adesanya-Davies said: “The protesters rightly want the government to bring down the price of fuel, give proper wages, offer free education, fix the roads, provide electricity, end insecurity, declare a state of emergency on inflation and disclose lawmakers’ pay, among several demands.

“I continue to plead with the protesters of the protest which commenced on 1st August 2024, to give the federal government more time to right their wrongs and that of the past administrations.

“The hardship as noticed in Nigeria is a global phenomenon. So let us sue for peace and seek for meaningful dialogue for a lasting solution, as President Bola Tinubu’s administration is frantically battling to right the wrongs and deliver to us all the dividends of democracy to Nigeria.”

“Let us remember that President Bola Tinubu has fought and struggled in the past for democracy to be established in Nigeria and let us toe the path of conscience and peace to avoid more loss of lives and wanton damages of properties please.”

She also called on the Federal government, “To urgently look into the hardship occasioned by the subsidy removal and plight of the suffering masses in the country to avoid completely any form of protest in our nation both now and in future, saying the government can do better.”

Adesanya-Davies, who while mourning during the END SARS PROTEST wrote several books on the END SARS, said: “Not again. Please youths, we don’t want lives wasted and properties destroyed again like during the END SARS protest.” (Saturday Independent)

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