In less than two days before the planned hunger protest, dubbed #EndBadGovernance, the organisers have rejected proposals from the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, that the demonstrations should be confined to one area rather than a nationwide procession.
They argued that the locations announced earlier were convergence points for the kick-off of the demonstration scheduled to start on Thursday, August 1st, in the country.
The organisers rejected the proposal during a meeting held virtually with the Police boss on Tuesday, after he suggested that confined protests in identified locations will work in the interest of the nation as against street rallies.
“It is not advisable to go on street processions because as you are planning peaceful protests, some are planning violence,” Egbetokun cautioned.
However, a lawyer for the Take It Back Movement, one of the groups organising the nationwide protests, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, rejected the proposal of the IGP, stressing that it negates their fundamental rights.
A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, representatives of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), other lawyers, members of civil society organisations, as well as, some arrowheads of the planned protests attended the virtual meeting.
