Am Already Addressing Your Demands, Protest No Longer Necessary — Tinubu
•By Our Reporter
ABUJA – President Bola Tinubu has questioned the rational for protest on August 1, when he was already addressing most of the challenges confronting the nation, especially those involving youths.
The President spoke through the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, who confirmed that the issue of the proposed protest came up for deliberations at the Federal Executive Council meeting.
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According to Idris, the recent student loan policy of the Federal government was targeted at the youth population such that no Nigerian child who secures admission will drop out on account of fees.
He went on to say that the distribution of truck loads of rice to state governments across the country and additional stocks to be sold at subsidised prices were all geared at alleviating the suffering of the people.
Idris described the President as a listening President who will not sit alof and watch the people suffer unjustly.
His words, “The position of FEC is that most of the demands that the protesters are making are actually being addressed by the federal government and therefore it is the view of the government that there is really no need for the protests again because most of those things that the protesters are putting forward are already actually been addressed or are being addressed by government.
“Like we have said repeatedly, this is a listening government. The President has listened to the voices of all those who are planning this protest and the message is that there is no need for it.”
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The Information Minister revealed that the President was already protesting on their behalf by doing those things that they want government to do, for example, the effort that government is making, in ensuring that food is being made available.
He noted, “The last Council meeting here at the briefing, we announced that a number of trucks 20 precisely had been given to the state governors for onward distribution to those who actually are in need of them, the poorest of the poor in society and those who are actually in need, but government did not stop there.
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