Nigeria Senate President Ahmad Lawan, has warned that another protest in Nigeria may not be far from now again if political office holders and policymakers continue to pay lip service to the issues of unemployment.
Lawan issued the warning when the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Sabo Nanono, led top officials of his ministry to defend its 2021 budget before the Senate Committee on Agriculture on Monday, November 9.
The Senate leader also called on his colleagues in positions of authorities not to ignored youth employment policies and empowerment into the 2021 budget so as to avoid another round of #EndSARS protests.
“Recently, we had protests by some of our youths. Some of them, very genuine, were seeking the attention of leaders and they got the attention. So, our budget, especially for 2021, should be mindful of what we do to provide employment opportunities for these youths.
They demonstrated, they protested because they could do so. There are so many other people who may not be youthful but are also in the same need. They didn’t protest.
Let us meet them where they are, we don’t want to wait until they also start to grumble or protest we should be proactive.” he said
Recall that #ENDSARS Protest which occur last months has awaken Nigerian leader of which some of them are doing what they can to include Youths into the political offices.
But Federal government, instead of tackling the main issue, resulted to frozen of bank account belongs to some of the Youths that champion the Protest.
Also former ally to president Buhari, Buba Galadima has told Nigerian government to expect revolution soon, if the government can’t address the lopsidedness in it governance policy.
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