Engage In Active Political Engineering, Not Planned Protest, Says Buratai To The Youths

<h4>Engage In Active Political Engineering<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that former Chief of Army Staff and former Nigerian Ambassador to the Republic of Benin retired Lt&period;-Gen&period; Tukur Buratai has advised Nigerian youths against the proposed nationwide protest by not allowing themselves to be used as willing tools by do-or-die partisan individuals or groups who want to stir up trouble in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Buratai advised them to be good students of history and take lessons from the 2020 EndSars protest&comma; which did not yield the desired benefit&period; According to him&comma; what they did was to allow hoodlums to hijack the protest&comma; and the result was total mayhem against innocent individuals&comma; public&comma; and private properties&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not undermining their fundamental human rights&comma; he cautioned that peaceful protest is guaranteed in our constitution&comma; but in most cases&comma; such protests end up being violent&period; The indicators are everywhere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to him&comma; the planners of the protest have exposed their hidden and evil plan by christening the protest as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;10 days of rage&period;” This means that the protest was never intended to be peaceful&period; A 10 day of rage can not be peaceful&period; The word rage connotes violence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He challenged the planners of the protest to embrace the tenets of political engineering instead&period; According to him&comma; youths constitute a large percentage of our voting and working population&period; Thus&comma; they should be actively involved in the democratic process to bring about the needed change if need be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Youths can actively participate in politics&comma; and their voices can be heard&comma; their ideas and their actions can bring about the needed transformation in the country”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Let Nigerians give the government the benefit of the doubt as President Tinubu listens to&comma; and reacts to the challenges facing the country”&comma; he concluded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It would be recalled that the United Nations’ Department of Safety and Security has also issued a warning that the planned protests in Nigeria could be hijacked by groups with ulterior motives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also&comma; President Tinubu has pleaded with the aggrieved Nigerians&comma; especially the youths who are planning a national protest over the high cost of leaving to shelve the planned action&period; The President also assured those behind the planned national protest that he has heard their grievances and is working seriously to ensure that all their concerns are addressed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to reports&comma; various Nigerian groups are planning a nationwide protest from August 1 to 10&comma; dubbed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;10 days of rage&comma;” to address the country’s soaring cost of living and economic hardship&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;