Stakeholders have knocked President Bola Tinubu over his failure to address key demands of the EndBadGovernance protesters in his nationwide broadcast on Sunday.
Tinubu had on Sunday waded into the issues emanating from the ongoing nationwide protests against hunger and high cost of living in Nigeria.
Our Source reports that Nigerian youths who are irked by the unfavourable prevailing economic conditions in the country are in the streets across the nation demanding solutions to the hardship.
The action, which commenced on August 1 and expected to last for ten days, is aimed at drawing the attention of the government to the hardship bedeviling citizens.
The protests in Kano, Borno, Yobe, Kaduna, Gombe, Bauchi, FCT, Niger and Jigawa, turned bloody with scores of unsuspecting citizens killed, while an unspecified number of persons were critically injured.
Although different reports from states suggested that about 19 persons paid the supreme price during the first day of the protest, Amnesty International claimed that 13 persons were killed.
In some states, hoodlums vandalized and looted properties belonging to both the government and private individuals.
In a quest to quell further breakdown of law and order in the country, President Tinubu on Sunday addressed Nigerians on the matter, appealing to the aggrieved Nigerian youths to rather embrace dialogue.
In his speech, Tinubu who commiserated with victims’ families over the death of their loved ones, called on the protesters to suspend the exercise.
Reeling out steps taken by the government to address the hunger crisis, Tinubu said about N570bn has been released to states for livelihoods support.
The president also pointed out that 600,000 nano businesses have so far benefitted from the nano grants, stating that additional 400,000 businesses would still benefit.
Although the president vehemently rejected the call for reinstatement of fuel subsidy, he noted that the Compress Natural Gas, CNG, initiative was to reduce transport cost by 60%, assuring that about one million conversion kits would be distributed at little or no cost.
